Amitabh Behar Executive Director of the Pune-based National Centre for Advocacy Studies and the National Convener of the Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, Amitabh, is also the co-convener of the National Social Watch Coalition. Mr. Behar is a political scientist by training. His research interests span governance and civil society, especially decentralized rural self-governance and social movements in central India. He has earlier worked with the Ford Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. He is also the Asia convener of the ‘Global Call to Action Against Poverty’ (GCAP).