Dr Sanjugta Vas Dev

Currently the Director of the Office for Women in South Australia, Sanjugta has over ten years’ experience working in the State Government, serving as a Senior Manager, Principal Policy Advisor and lead evaluator across a range of human services agencies including disability, public housing, education and child protection. These experiences have provided her with a deep understanding of service delivery and policy development from a strategic and operational perspective. She is passionate about supporting organizations to explore ways to develop equal partnerships with people with lived experience in service design and implementation.

Prior to working in State Government, Sanjugta completed her PhD in political science and worked as a researcher and consultant across the three South Australian universities. Her research involved a strong focus around gender and youth within an international development context. For six years, she engaged in international consultancy advising the government and non-government sector on gender and youth sensitive policy development and public expenditure management (working in Samoa, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, India, Indonesia and Cambodia) and has worked as a trainer in the Gender Consortium.