Mr. Roop Sen

Mr. Roop Sen

Mr. Roop Sen

Co-Founder of Sanjog India & Partner at Change Mantras

Roop Sen is a researcher and facilitator by training. He is the founding member of Sanjog, a technical resource organisation that works on gender, violence and human migration in South Asia. He is also a managing partner of Change Mantras that consults for foundations, governments, INGOs and UN agencies on organisational development, human resource and leadership development, and consortium management. Some of the organisations he works within the anti human trafficking issue include Freedom Fund, Kamonohashi, Child Investment Fund and the UNICEF. Roop is a member of the Central Advisory Committee on Trafficking in Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation, of India. He was a member of the Standing Committee and the Inter-ministerial Committee that developed the draft bill on Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2017.

Work experience on Indo Bangladesh cross border trafficking:

  • 2006, Lives in Motion, Research on Cross Border Trafficking between Bangladesh and India, that were conducted by Sanlaap, Dhaka Ahsania Mission and Association for Community Development.
  • 2011, Crossing Boundaries, Research on migration and trafficking in boys between Bangladesh and India.
  • 2014: Disclosure: Research on Vulnerability, Violence and Recovery of Children who are victims of trafficking in India, Bangladesh and Nepal
  • Advisor to Rights Jessore, a human rights organisation in Bangladesh
  • Regional Director for Groupe Development, in Bangladesh, India and Nepal between 2003 and 2012, managed 4 consortium implemented projects with 32 NGOs