Director

Ruchika Shiva came to her work through the people that public services most often miss. Before joining Riva, she worked on rights of children in difficult circumstances, including street children in Delhi and ran advocacy campaigns on girls' right to education. That background gave her a conviction that ripples through all of her work: a system that doesn’t reach everyone isn’t finished yet.

The end of traditional aid is not a crisis for Riva. We’ve been moving towards this moment for more than a decade, and Bryony Stentiford is one of the reasons we’re ready. Bryony has spent ten years building the partnerships and funding relationships that have allowed us to move beyond our previous NGO role, to become something more compelling in services and approach to nation builders, notably government.