Ms. Diane Elson
Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK, and Research Affiliate, Centre for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University, US, and Member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)
Ms. Elson is Emeritus Professor in sociology at the University of Essex, UK, and is a member of the Essex Human Rights Centre. She is also Member of United Nations Committee for Development Policy. She has served as adviser to UNIFEM, UNDP, Oxfam and other development agencies and is a past vice-president of the International Association for Feminist Economics.
She is the chair of the UK women’s organization, the Women’s Budget Group, which analyses government economic policy and advocates for budgets that support gender equality and low- income women. She publishes widely on gender and development.
She is the chair of the UK women’s organization, the Women’s Budget Group, which analyses government economic policy and advocates for budgets that support gender equality and low- income women. She publishes widely on gender and development.