As a development economist, Bina Agarwal has taught at the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute and the University of Delhi’s Institute of Economic Growth. She has written extensively on issues relating to gender inequality, social exclusion, poverty, the environment and development, as well as property rights.

Lourdes Benería was professor of city and regional planning and women’s studies at Cornell University. Benería has also worked with international organizations and served on international committees. She worked at the ILO and has collaborated with other UN organizations, such as UNIFEM and UNDP, and with several NGOs. She obtained her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1975.

Nina Banks is an Associate Professor in Economics at Bucknell University in the US. She has links with several Feminist Economics associations and publications, including the IAFFE, and is on the editorial board of both the Feminist Economics and The Review of Black Political Economy journals. She focuses particularly on the often under-counted and under-appreciated value-building contributions of Black and migrant women.

Maria Floro is a Professor of Economics at the American University, Washington, who has worked on various areas of gender equality. Her research has included looking at the relationship between environmental crises, and social reproduction crises, and also considered the linkages between women’s well-being and economic development, including how to improve the data quality and collection methods to understand this. She has worked in collaboration with other scholars and grassroots organisations in various countries, including Thailand, Mongolia, China, the Philippines, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

Naila is a Professor of Gender and Development at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her research interests focus on various aspects of inequality and how they play out within households, labour markets, and the wider economy. She has written on topics ranging from the social protection of informal workers to gendered perspectives of development discourse. She also produces work about the forms of collective action by poor and marginalized groups that seek a more just distribution of power, resources, and political voice and its relationship with individual empowerment and societal justice.

As a feminist activist and academic, Verónica Gago has led the Ni Una Menos movement in Argentina - an alliance of feminist forces that call for economic and social justice globally. She has been a professor of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and at the National University of General San Martín, as well as a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council.

With a background in Political Economy and South Asian Studies, Kalpana Wilson has been a lecturer of gender studies and international development at LSE and SOAS. She has published extensively on race relations, gender justice, women’s agency, reproductive rights, and rural labour movements, with a particular focus on the South Asian region.

Born in 1933, Devaki Jain is an Indian feminist thinker with wide experience in field-based development research in the Global South, as well as advocacy in international organizations and conferences. After graduating in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University, she describes herself as a liberated woman, proud of handling conversations with authoritative intellectual men and emancipated from domestic duties that were keeping her fellow women busy. Recalling these memories, Jain explains how far away she was from being a feminist.

Tithi Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Global Studies at Purdue University. She specialises in Modern South Asian History. Although she is a historian by training, Tithi’s contribution to Class Struggle Feminism and Social Reproduction Theory is incredibly significant to the field of feminist economics. She writes extensively on Marxist theory, gender and its intersection with class as well as the politics of Islamophobia. Her work has been published in the Journal of Asian Studies, South Asia Research, Electronic Intifada, Jacobin, Salon.com and the New Left Review.

Economist, Professor, Philosopher and Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen has made groundbreaking contributions to welfare economics, inequality, poverty and social choice theory to name just a few. He has championed feminst issues throughout his works - from bringing to light the issue of “missing” women to serving as an editorial board member of the journal “Feminist Economics”.

Born in Italy, Silvia Federici is a well-known name to many feminist economists, particularly those who lean towards Marxist-feminist traditions. She has been an influential teacher, writer and activist, studying and teaching in the US before also teaching in Nigeria.

​Deniz Kandiyoti is the Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As an economist, she is known particularly for her work on the interactions between gender, nationalism and Islam in rural post-colonial societies such as Turkey, where she was born, and Uzbekistan.

Barbara Bergmann (née Berman) is known for many contributions in academic and policy spaces. Individuals in public policy might know Bergmann for her congressional testimonies on poverty and discrimination, or from her role as a staff economist for President Kennedy’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Ruth Pearson is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the University of Leeds, and a member of the UK Women’s Budget Group Management Committee. She has previously been a Chair in Women and Development at the Institute for Social Studies in the Hague, and ten years as MA Director in Development Studies at UEA.

A revolutionary and a reformist, Rosa was born into a Polish Jewish family and rose to become the leader of the early twentieth century socialist movement only to be arrested and assassinated by the right-wing paramilitary Friekorps in 1919, under the order of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which she had formerly been a member of.