Sheba Tejani is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Development at King's.

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. She has studied labour market inequalities in the context of structural change and export-oriented industrialization in countries in the Global South. In a related research programme, she focuses on the political economy underpinnings of development in India.

She was recently awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies to support this work. Sheba has a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research, New York. She has previously worked as Assistant Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School (NY) and at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham. She has served as a Consulting Economist with the Gender, Trade and Development section of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. She has also consulted with other international organizations such as the ILO, World Bank, UN Women and UNDESA.

Research

• Trade, global value chains and inequalities
• Gender, informality and labour markets
• Automation, structural change and its impacts on workers
• Indian political economy and development

Teaching

Postgraduate

• 7YYDN036 Global Labour and Development
• 7YYDN051 Feminist Economics

PhD supervision

Sheba is happy to supervise students whose projects relate to:

• Global value chains, inequality and development
• Gender inequalities in the labour market
• Indian political economy and development

Expertise and Public Engagement

• Trade and gender
• Future of work

Further details

See Sheba's research profile