Sameer brings over 25 years of varied experience in entrepreneurship, tech-transition, advocacy, branding, communication strategy and innovative impact research in the global south. In his last fulltime communications role, he led campaigns, communications and the institutional scale-up of the world’s largest HIV prevention programme for truckers and allied key populations with BMGF & TCIF in India. A reset in life led to founding a recycled bookstore in a beach village, rediscovering music, theatre and pets while consulting as a freelancer on interesting and nuanced projects around SRHR.

Sameer has worked with PATH, UNFPA, UNICEF, IPPF, Rutgers, AIDS Alliance, FHI 360, Pathfinders International and others. He has written scripts & pitch documents, edited op-eds & position papers, facilitated participatory social & behaviour change learning labs, theatre for development projects, grassroots comics & storytelling workshops, significant change studies as well as designed and back-stopped large mobile app-enabled research among key populations and young people - mainly in Asia and East & Southern Africa. He helps organisations discover and deploy key strategies and investments within communities by amplifying grassroots insights. Creative communications and advocacy influenced by people and their stories gives him special joy.

He currently lives in and works from Paris, France.