Tara Ali Baig (8 August 1916 – 1989) was a social reformer, writer, and first Asian woman President of the International Union for Child Welfare in Geneva.

She married the diplomat Mirza Rashid Ali Baig and was famous artist Anjolie Ela Menon’s aunt.

When her husband became Chief of Protocol in Delhi she built up the Indian Council for Child Welfare of which she later became president, and she also helped Indira Gandhi (q.v.)

In 1977, she was elected president of the International Union for Child Welfare in Geneva, the first Asian and the first woman to hold the post.

She received an honorary degree from the Tehran School of Social Work in 1965; a gold medal and special award from the International Union for Child Welfare in 1984, the National Award for Child Welfare in 1984; and an honorary degree of Doctor of Law from Alberta University, Canada in 1988.