About the discussants

Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Visiting Professor, WiSE Centre for Economic Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University. In 2016, she was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She is a former Vice President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She has published widely on gender equality and economic policy. For more information see www.drdianeelson.com.

 

Kalpana Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London. She works on critical international development and social justice. Her research explores questions of race/gender, labour, neoliberalism, and reproductive rights and justice, with a particular focus on South Asia and its diasporas.

 

 

 

 

Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Global Development & Anthropology at the Department of International Development at King’s College London. A social anthropologist by training, Andrea works on questions of rights and justice in relation to gender, sexuality, participation, democracy and development.

 

 

Sheba Tejani is Senior Lecturer of International Development at the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Sheba's work is centred on the distributional consequences of international trade and structural transformation in developing countries. She is interested in the effects of technological upgrading, automation and gender segregation on workers and the future of work. In a related research programme, she focuses on the political economy underpinnings of development in India.