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Female Employment and Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Southern Europe
GCRF Workshop at SOAS, London University, 3rd and 4th May 2018
Participants
Fauzia Ahmed Associate Professor, Sociology and Women’s Studies, Miami University of [email protected]
Fauzia Erfan Ahmed has over two decades of professional experience in international development with non-governmental organisations and the United Nations Development Programme. Her writings have been published in the International Journal of Feminist Politics, Feminist Economics and the Encyclopedia for Women in Muslim Cultures. She is working on a book entitled, Microcredit and Masculinity: Women’s Voices and the Politics of Happiness in Bangladesh, based on her longitudinal qualitative study of microcredit households. Current gender research interests include: globalisation and labour; Islam, masculinity and development; and informal justice systems.
Parvin Alizadeh Subject Area Coordinator and Lecturer, Boston University, Study Abroad, London [email protected]
Parvin Alizadeh worked as a lecturer in economics at Keynes College, Kent University, UK between 1988 and 1990 and was subsequently a principal Lecturer of Economics at London Metropolitan University where she worked for 17 years. Parvin also taught as an Associate Professor of Economics at Denison University, Ohio, USA from 2000 to 2003. Since 2009 she has been teaching at Boston University, Study Abroad, London Program. Parvin has
also worked as a consultant for a number of international organisations including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Bank. Her main research interests are in the fields of women’s empowerment and the economic development of the Middle East, with a focus on Iran.
Ragui Assaad Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of [email protected]
Ragui Assaad is a professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, where he chairs the Global Policy area and co-chairs the Master of Development Practice programme. He has been a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) since 1994 and currently serves as its thematic leader for Labor and Human Resource Development and as a member of its board of trustees. He is also a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. His current research focuses on education and labour markets in the Arab World.
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Ibrahim Awad Professor of Global Affairs and Director, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in [email protected]
Ibrahim Awad was previously and successively a senior official of the League of Arab States, the United Nations and the International Labour Organization. At AUC he teaches graduate courses on International Organization in Global Governance, Regionalism and Regional Integration, International Migration and Development and Migration and Refugee Movements in the Middle East and North Africa. His most recent publications include ‘The Multiple Levels of Governance of International Migration’ AJIL, Unbound, January 2017; ‘Towards a Joint Approach to Migration and Asylum in the Euro-Mediterranean Space’ in Beyond the Migration and Asylum Crisis, edited by Ferrucio Pastore (Aspen Institute Italia,
2017), ‘Labour Migration Governance in Times of Political Transition: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt and Tunisia’, Migration and Development, 2015; ‘Population Movements in the Aftermath of the Arab Awakening: The Syrian Refugee Crisis between Regional Factors and State Interest’ in Migration in the Mediterranean (University of Malta, 2014).
Hannah Bargawi Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Lecturer in Economics, [email protected]
Dr Hannah Bargawi’s current research interests include gender and work in occupied Palestine, the links between macroeconomic policy-making and labour-market outcomes and the gendered impact of economic policies. Her regional expertise covers sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Before joining the Economics department, she worked at the Centre for Development Policy and Research at SOAS where she participated in numerous research and consultancy projects for international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, the ILO and the UN Development Programe.
Ghada Barsoum Associate Professor - MPP Program Director, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, AUC [email protected]
Ghada Barsoum’s current research interests include social policy, youth employment, gender and higher education governance. She has authored more than 50 publications including articles in top-ranking peer-reviewed journals, a book on the employment crisis of female graduates in Egypt and a number of book chapters and technical reports. She has been a consultant for the International Labor Organization and other UN organizations. She has also been the principal investigator of two projects with funding
from the Ford Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme. Prior to joining AUC, she was a Research Associate at the Population Council, West Asia and North Africa Office. Professor Barsoum obtained her PhD in Sociology from University of Toronto and her Master’s degree from AUC.
Azita Berar Awad Former Director, Employment Policy Department, International Labor [email protected]
Azita Berar Awad was the Director of the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organisation from 2006 to December 2017, leading ILO’s action for promoting full, productive, decent and freely chosen employment. Her responsibilities included policy advice for the development and implementation of comprehensive employment frameworks in numerous countries in all regions of the world, integrating macro-economic, labour-market and skills policies, to maximise the employment impact of
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economic growth, investment and development strategies and make them inclusive gender-sensitive and sustainable. She is a global advocate for promoting employment and decent work as central concerns of the development agenda and for developing multi-stakeholder partnerships to promote this goal in particular with a focus on youth and gender.Ms. Berar has been initiating and leading high-level policy advisory work, research and capacity-building programmes in the fields of pro-employment macro-economic policies, poverty reduction strategies, gender equality, youth employment, informal economy and transition to formality and employment-centred peace-building processes in conflict-affected situations. She holds post graduate degrees in Development Economics and Political Science from the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and is the author of numerous publications.
Francesca Bettio Professor of Economics, University of [email protected]
Francesca Bettio graduated from the University of Bologna and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge. Her main areas of expertise are labour economics, population studies and gender economics. She is the author or co-author of more than 70 publications including books, articles and research monographs on topics ranging from long-term and cyclical patterns of female employment and wage differentials to discrimination and occupational segregation, fertility in Mediterranean countries, intra-household bargaining, care work and sex work. Her latest publications concern violence
against women in relation to financial independence and the determinants of gender gaps in pension income.
Nadereh Chamlou International Development [email protected]
Nadereh is a former Senior Advisor of the World Bank where she worked for over three decades in technical, coordination, managerial, and advisory functions in diverse sectors and geographical regions. She authored seminal reports on topics of gender and economic development, corporate governance, and private sector development. She serves on the boards of several international NGOs and advisory committees of academic institutions. She is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She was a 2015 recipient of The International Alliance for Women’s ‘Making a Difference’ global award.
Diane Elson Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, Essex [email protected]
Professor Elson is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and consultant to UN Women. In 2016 she was awarded a Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She has served as chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group and as Vice-President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She has published widely on gender equality and economic policy. A chapter on her work is included in Fifty Key Thinkers on Development (edited by D. Simon, and published by Routledge in 2006).
Moha Ennaji President and Co-founder of International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fès
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Moha Ennaji is one of Morocco’s leading academics with research interests in North African culture and gender issues, language and migration. He is the president of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures. His most recent publications are: Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe (Palgrave, 2016, Editor), Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe (Palgrave, 2015), Minorities, Women and the State in North Africa (Red Sea Press 2015, Editor). Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa (Routledge, 2014),
Language and Gender in the Mediterranean Region, IJSL Issue 190, Editor (The Hague, 2008) and Women in the Middle East (Routledge, 2010) and Gender and Violence in the Middle East (Routledge, 2011, both co-edited with F. Sadiqi.
Gaëlle Ferrant Economist, OECD Development [email protected]
Gaëlle Ferrant is an economist at the OECD Development Centre and oversees its gender programme. In this role, Gaëlle conducts policy-oriented research on gender and development issues including measuring gender-based discrimination in social institutions and feeding policy dialogue. Prior to this role, Gaëlle was researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and the University of Laval, Canada. She has also worked at the French Development Agency and for Africa-based NGOs. She has a PhD in development economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris School of Economics. Gaëlle is a French citizen.
Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi [email protected]
Jayati Ghosh was born in 1955 and educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her PhD. She has a wide range of research interests, including globalization, international trade and finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy as well as issues related to gender and development and the implications of recent economic growth in China and India. She has authored and/or edited a dozen books and more than 160
scholarly articles. Recent books include Demonetisation Decoded: A Critique of India’s Monetary Experiment (with CP Chandrasekhar and Prabhat Patnaik, Routledge, 2017) and the Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (co-edited with Erik Reinert and Rainer Kattel, Edward Elgar, 2016). She is also Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates, a South-based global network of heterodox development economists (www.networkideas.org).
Ramani Gunatilaka Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo and a Director of the Centre for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka [email protected]
Ramani Gunatilaka works as an independent consultant in Sri Lanka and the neighbouring region, conducting econometric analyses related to labour markets, income distribution, poverty, education and subjective well-being. Her recent work has looked at issues related to women’s employment and education in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and the Maldives, while her ongoing research focuses on the gendered dimensions of migration and poverty in fishing communities in Sri Lanka, India and
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Cambodia. Ramani is a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo and a Director of the Centre for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka. She has several publications in internationally refereed journals.
Hassan Hakimian Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Director, London Middle East Institute and Reader in the Economics Department, SOAS
[email protected] Hakimian is Director of the London Middle East Institute and a Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS, University of London. Dr Hakimian's research focuses on the MENA economies, specifically human resources and demographic change, labour markets, inclusive growth and the economics of Arab uprisings. He is the author of Labour Transfer and Economic Development (1990), co-editor with Ziba Moshaver of The State and Global Change (2000), with Jeff Nugent of Trade Policy and Economic Integration in MENA (2003) and with Parvin Alizadeh of Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions (2014). Dr Hakimian is a founding member and currently the
President of the International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA) and a Research Fellow and member of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. He is the founder and series editor for the Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa series, which he launched in 2003.
Ipek Ilkkaracan Professor of Economics, Istanbul Technical [email protected]
In addition to her position at Istanbul Technical University, Professor Ilkkaracan is AssociateDirector of the ITU Women’s Studies Center and Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute in New York. She holds a BA in political science from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania and an MA and PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research, NYC. Her research areas include the macroeconomics of unemployment and wages, labour market inequalities, work-life balance policies, time use, the care economy and sustainable growth. She serves as an associate editor of Feminist Economics and an elected board member of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She served on the Board of the Middle Eastern Economics Association from 2011 to 2014 and
as the country expert on Turkey in the European Network of Experts on Gender Equality (ENEGE) from 2012 to 2015. Ipek is also a founding member of the Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics GEM-Europe network, Women for Women’s Human Rights and the Women’s Labour and Employment Initiative (KEIG) Platform in Turkey.
Susan Joekes Research Associate, [email protected]
Susan Joekes is an independent researcher particularly interested in the economics of gender relations in the Middle East and North Africa. She has degrees in Persian with Arabic from Edinburgh and development economics from the University of Oxford and is currently a Research Associate at SOAS. She was a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and a staff economist at ICRW, Washington DC. From 2000 to 2012 (and in Cairo for the last six years) she worked with Canada’s International Development Research Centre, managing programmes on trade, employment, SMEs, entrepreneurship and private sector development and competition policy.
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Uma Kambhampati Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of [email protected]
Uma’s research over the years has encompassed a number of areas: applied industrial economics, child labour and schooling, well-being and happiness and institutions and development. Her publications include a range of journal papers in well-respected, peer-reviewed journals including World Development, the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Journal of Development Studies among others. She is on the editorial team of two journals: Feminist Economics and the European Journal of Development Research.
Massoud Karshenas Principal Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Professor of Economics, [email protected]
Professor of Economics at the Economics Department of the SOAS, Massoud is a member of the advisory board of the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS and a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the London Middle East Institute and the ERF and was formerly a Professor of Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and the external research coordinator for research on social policy in the Middle East at the United Nations Institute for Social Development in Geneva.
Ece Kocabicak LSE Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at London School of [email protected]
Dr Ece Kocabicak is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her work focuses on varieties of patriarchies and capitalisms, the relationship between gender and class-based inequalities and the significance of political collective subjects for social transformation. She further examines the processes and factors that sustain gender-based exclusionary strategies in Muslim majority countries. Previous research has included the relationship between economic development and gender inequality, the implications of technological changes for household production and gender-based segregation in the labour market.
Jens Lerche Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies, Department of Development Studies, [email protected]
Jens’ research focuses on India and his research interests include the political economy of labour relations, unfree labour and rural labour migration, class and caste relations in agrarian transformation, and labour organisations. He is editor of Journal of Agrarian Change. Recent publications include Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Dalel Benbabaali, Brendan Donegan, Jayaseelan Raj and Vikramaditya Thakur, Ground Down by Growth. Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India (OUP India and Pluto, 2018).
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Antigone Lyberaki Professor of Economics, Panteion [email protected]
Professor Lyberaki was an MP for To Potami, a political party of the liberal centre, between January and September 2015. She has a PhD in economics on Greek small and medium enterprises and an MPhil in Development Studies from Sussex University. She has been a visiting professor in New York (CUNY), Paris (EHESS) and the UK (LSE, IDS). Her research interests are SMEs, migration, ageing (Greek SHARE) and gender. She has been an activist and board member of Action Aid Hellas, with a special interest in Africa. She is currently on the board of Solidarity Now, an NGO active in providing solutions for the refugee problems in Greece.
Terry McKinley Professor and the Director of the Centre for Development Policy and Research at [email protected]
Professor McKinley has been in his current post since early 2008. Before coming to SOAS, he was the Director of the International Poverty Centre in Brasilia, a globally oriented institution jointly sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Brazilian government. Before that assignment, he served for many years as a Senior Global Policy Adviser, with a focus on Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Reduction, in the Bureau for Development Policy of UNDP in New York. In this capacity he organized and led many country studies on Macroeconomic Policies for Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in East and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Central Asia. He
first joined UNDP in 1994 as a Policy Specialist with the Human Development Report Office, first working extensively on the 1995 Human Development Report on Gender, especially in helping to develop the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) as well as the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM).
Farhad Mehran Independent Consultant on Labour [email protected]
Farhad Mehran, statistician, PhD, Department of Statistics, Harvard University (1973); former Director, Bureau of Statistics of International Labour Office, Geneva; Lecturer of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. During his tenure at ILO (1975-2005), Dr Mehran prepared draft international standards on various topics of labour statistics, in particular, the international definitions of employment and unemployment, and global estimation of child labour and forced labour. Co-author of ILO
manual on Surveys of Economically Active Population, Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment (Geneva, 1990). He designed and implemented national labour statistics programmes in more than 20 countries. He retired from ILO in November 2005.
Mahmoud Messkoub Assistant Professor, Erasmus University of [email protected]
Mahmood Messkoub is currently senior lecturer at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, the Hague, Erasmum Universtiy of Rotterdam, NL). As an economist he also taught and researched at the universities of London and Leeds, UK. His current research is in the areas of economics of social policy and population ageing, migration and universal approach to social provisioning. His recent publications are related to social policy, poverty
and employment policies, unpaid household work and cash transfers. He has acted as a consultant to ESCWA, ILO, UN (DESA, UNFPA).
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Valentine M. Moghadam Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Professor, Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston [email protected]
Valentine M. Moghadam also directs Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at Northeastern University, co-founded the Gender and Development Initiative (https://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/internationalaffairs/gender-development-initiative/gender-development-initiative/), and was director of the International Affairs Program (Jan. 2012-July 2017). In addition to her academic career, she has been a senior researcher at UNU/WIDER in Helsinki (1990-95) and a section chief at UNESCO in Paris (2004-06). Professor Moghadam studies globalisation, development, revolutions and
social movements, and gender in the Middle East and North Africa. The author of Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (1998) and Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), among other publications, her current research focuses on prospects for women’s economic citizenship.
Cem Oyvat Lecturer in Economics, Department of International Business and Economics, Business School, University of [email protected]
Cem Oyvat received his PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2014 with a dissertation titled ‘Essays on the Evolution of Inequality’ that examined the impact of agrarian structures on income inequality over the long run and also the validity of the Kuznets hypothesis. His research interests include income distribution in the developing world, agrarian structures and land inequality, urbanisation, informal sector, gender economics, wage-led growth and the effects of globalisation on growth and distribution. He has published articles in World Development, the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
Francesco Pastore Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Law, University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’[email protected]
Francesco Pastore is also a research fellow of the IZA of Bonn and country lead for Italy of the Global Labor Organisation. In 2013, he qualified as Full Professor of Economic Policy and as Associate Professor of Economic Statistics. He is a member of the executive board of the Italian Association of Comparative Economic Studies. Previously, he was the Secretary of the Italian Association of Labor Economists. He earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Sussex. He has acted as a consultant for the ILO, UNESCO and the World Bank, among others. Gender inequality is one of his main research issues. He has written
extensively on the emergence of the gender wage gap among young people. His most recent paper was about applying propensity score matching and IPWRA to see whether the gender wage gap is disappearing after controlling for industrial segregation. He is currently working on the impact of international trade on the gender wage gap.
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Paula Rodriguez-Modroño Professor, Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History, Pablo de Olavide University [email protected]
Paula Rodríguez-Modroño has a PhD in Economics from the University of Seville and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. She is Associate Professor in Economics at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on gender, development and economic history. Her research interests include gender and work, the economics of care and the gendered impacts of crisis and macroeconomic policies. She is currently leading the national project entitled ‘Employment crisis
and transformations in gender inequalities’.
Clémentine Sadania PhD Candidate at Aix-Marseille School of [email protected]
Clémentine is an empirical researcher who specializes on development and gender issues. Her primary research interests are focused on gender, labour, migration and education. She is currently completing my PhD in Economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics while working at Lorraine University as a teaching assistant. Her thesis analyses women’s empowerment and household decision-making, with a particular reference to Egyptian households. In one paper, she has assessed the impact of Egyptian women’s economic activities on their participation in household decision-making, using changes in
past characteristics of the local labour market. In a paper co-written with Patricia Augier and Marion Dovis, she has studied labour market shocks following the 2011 Egyptian social uprising to explore the impact of mothers’ empowerment on the transmission of these shocks to the time allocation of youth. In another paper, she has examined exogenous variations in international male migration from Egypt to study the impacts of migration on marriage outcomes in the sending localities.
Fatima Sadiqi Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies, University of [email protected]
Fatima Sadiqi’s work focuses on women’s issues in modern North Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean world. She is author and editor of numerous volumes and journal issues including Moroccan Feminist Discourses (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and Women’s Movements in the Post-‘Arab Spring’ North Africa (2016). Fatima Sadiqi is a member of many national and international scholarly and policy-making boards. She has served as Director General of the Fez Festival of Sacred Music and as an Administrative Board Member of the Royal Institute of the Amazigh Language and Culture (IRCAM). Her work has
been supported by numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Women’s History.
Fadime Sahin PhD candidate at [email protected]
Fadime works under the supervision of Dr Hannah Bargawi. Her interests lie broadly in information and communication technologies, women’s labour force participation and women and development. She has been an adjunct lecturer at Richmond University and is currently working as a Teaching Associate at Queen Mary, University of London.
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Mona Said Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of Department [email protected] Economics, American University of Cairo
Dr Said held the position of Regional Economic Consultant on the South Eastern Mediterranean region in the Office of the Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developpment from 2015-16 and has previously been an economic consultant to various international European and Euro-Med institutions. She has been a lecturer in Economics with Reference to the Middle East at SOAS and has held operational positions at the Middle East and North African Department of the World Bank and the Policy Development and Review Department of the International Monetary Fund. She is currently a Research Associate of the Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries, Iran
and Turkey and of the Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at AUC.
Niels Spierings Assistant Professor in Sociology, Radboud University, the [email protected]
Before taking up his post in Radboud University Professor Spierings held positions as the University of Essex and London School of Economics and Political Science. His work has several foci, including social and political attitudes in the Middle East and North Africa, women’s empowerment and gender equality attitudes among migrant communities, and women’s employment in Muslim societies. On the last issue, Niels has published in journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, Feminist Economics, and World Development. He has also published a monograph on the same topic: Women’s employment in Muslim
countries. Patterns of Diversity.
Nisha Srivastava Professor, Department of Economics, University of [email protected]
While on a sabbatical from the University of Allahabad, Nisha Srivastava worked with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), New Delhi, where she was Head of the Vulnerability Analysis unit. Her research interests include issues of women’s education, employment and empowerment, poverty, globalisation and issues related to development. She has worked on projects with several national and international organisations including the ESRC, UK, Planning Commission, UNDP, World Bank, IFAD, JPIC, and IDRC among others. She is actively involved in working with grass-root organisations that seek to empower women and marginalised social groups.
Ravi Srivastava Co-Investigator, Global Challenges Research Fund Project and Professor of Economics in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru [email protected]
Professor of Economics in Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, until March 2018. Ravi Srivastava was previously a member of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS), which submitted a dozen reports and made wide-ranging recommendations on all aspects of policy related to informal sector enterprises and informal labour. His main areas of research include the informal economy, social protection, rural and urban labour markets and labour migration. In 2009, he was awarded the V. V. Giri Memorial Award for research on migration. He was the President of the Indian Society of Labour Economics in 2015.
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Platon Tinios Assistant Professor, University of [email protected]
Platon Tinios is an economist and assistant professor at the University of Piraeus. He was educated in Egypt, Greece and the UK, studying economics at the Universities of Cambridge (MA, PhD) and Oxford (MPhil). He served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004, specialising in the economic analysis of social policy. He was a member of the EU Social Protection Committee from 2000 to 2004 and has participated in IMF Technical Assistance missions in the areas of social expenditure and pensions. In 2015/6 he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE. His research interests
include pensions, ageing populations, gender, social policy and the economics of insurance and public finance.
Sylvia Walby Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Holder of the UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, Lancaster [email protected]
Professor Walby is Director of the Violence and Society UNESCO Centre at Lancaster University. She has been funded by ESRC, UN Women, UNECE, European Commission, European Parliament and the Council of Europe and her work includes the conceptualisation of varieties of gender regimes, globalisation and the theorisation of violence. She engages with civil society organisations active in her research fields as well as with governmental entities. Her publications include most recently Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (Sage 2009), The Future of Feminism (Polity Press 2011), Crisis (Polity 2015), and, with colleagues, The Concept and
Measurement of Violence against Women and Men (Policy Press 2017).
Lynn [email protected]
Lynn Welchman, a professor in the School of Law at SOAS, University of London, specialises in law and society, Muslim family laws, women’s rights and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to joining SOAS she worked in human rights, primarily with Palestinian NGOs in the West Bank but also with international human rights organisations, mostly in the MENA region. She is a founding co-editor of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights and the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies Series and has published widely in her areas of academic interest. Lynn is a Board member of the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Support of Human Rights Defenders, and is on the International Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundations Arab Regional Office.
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