Referentinnen 18. Juni
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Lina ABOU-HABIB
Lina Abou-Habib is the Executive Director of the Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (www.crtda.org.lb) based in Beirut and working in the Arab region. She has collaborated in designing and managing programmes in the Middle East and North Africa region on issues related to Gender and Citizenship, Gender, Economy and Trade and Gender and Leadership. Lina has collaborated with a number of regional and international agencies (including KIT, UNIFEM, ILO, ESCWA, UNDP, UNRWA) as well as public institutions (including national women commissions, ministries of social affairs) in mainstreaming gender in development policies and practices and in building capacities for gender mainstreaming. She has also trained with KIT in Amsterdam, Paris, Senegal and Beirut. Prior to that, Lina was the Programme Coordinator for Oxfam GB in Lebanon as well as a member of the Oxfam GB Gender Team in the UK. She is also a Programme Adviser for the Women Learning Partnership and the Global Fund for Women and is serving on the AWID Board of Directors as the Secretary.
Emily ESPLEN
Emily Esplen is a researcher at BRIDGE. She has worked on a range on gender and development issues, focusing particularly on sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and AIDS, men and masculinities, and most recently, gender and care. She is the author of the new BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Care.
Wendy HARTCOURT
Dr Wendy Harcourt since 1988 has been Editor of the quarterly journal Development on behalf of the Society for International Development an international development NGO based in Rome Italy. She has a PhD from the Australian National University (1987) and is a member of Clare Hall University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor of the European University Institute. She has just completed her 5th book on Body Politics in Development (2009) published by Zed Books, London and is now series editor of the Zed Book Series on Gender and Environment.
She writes widely in the field of gender and development, leading several research and policy programmes for SID, UN and international and European NGOs on globalization, alternative economics and gender, reproductive rights and health, culture and communications. As well as her contributions to academic writing and research she is active in European and International women's networks.
She is former Chair of Women in Development Europe (WIDE) and now Convenor of the Alternative Feminist working group where she is preparing a Herstory of WIDE for the 25th anniversary in 2010. She is also leading the work of Society for International Development on 'Responding to the Care Crises'.
Ulrike KNOBLOCH
Ulrike Knobloch holds a PhD in economics and philosophy from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and has 15 years of experience in the research field Gender - Economics - Ethics. Actually she is researcher and lecturer in gender studies as well as in ethics and economics at the Universities of Fribourg Switzerland and St. Gallen. She is co-founder and member of the Women's Network Caring Economy and of IAFFE Europe and co-edits the book series Lifeworld Economy.
Rocío LLEÓ FERNÁNDEZ
Rocío Lleó Fernández is a feminist, sociologist and gender and development expert from Madrid, Spain. She works with ACSUR Las Segovias since January 2007 on Gender topics, mostly in the area of gender and development education and sensibilization of the different Spanish society groups through seminars, courses, debats, publications, campaignes, etc .
She is additionally engaged as feminist activist in a local group called "Tejedoras".
Francie LUND
Francie Lund is the part-time coordinator of the Social Protection Programme of the global research and advocacy network, WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (www.wiego.org). Her main research interest for a number of years has been the shifting boundaries between the state and the private sector in social provision, and the implications this has for women's caring work and labour market participation. She is also Senior Research Associate at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban, where she taught the Social Policy course. She is particularly interested in the interaction of quantitative and qualitative research methods in exploring what really goes on in households, and in how people report on the informal work that they do.
She has been involved in the current UNRISD research programme, The Political Economy of Paid and Unpaid Care Work, working on the South African country research with fellow South African Debbie Budlender. She was closely involved with health and welfare policy reform in the transition from apartheid to democratic rule in South Africa. Soon after the 1994 elections she was asked to chair the Committee of Enquiry into Child and Family Support ('the Lund Committee'), which resulted in the introduction in 1998 of a cash grant to young children in poor households.
Kathleen LYNCH
Kathleen Lynch is the Professor of Equality Studies at University College Dublin where she also holds a Senior Lectureship in Education. She is deeply committed to equality and social justice, and to feminism in both theory and practice. Her work is guided by the belief that the purpose of scholarship is not just to understand the world but to change it for the good of all humanity. She has been both an activist academic all her life.
She has published widely in the fields of equality, sociology and education. Her recent books include Equality: From Theory to Action, (2004) co-authored with J. Baker, S. Cantillon, S. and J. Walsh; and Equality and Power in Schools (2002) co-authored with Anne Lodge. She has focused especially on the issue of equality and care in her recent work and has published a number of papers in that field, including papers on the relationship between care and education and the gendered order of caring. Her most recent book (with her colleagues John Baker and Maureen Lyons) is titled Affective Equality: Love, Care and Injustice (2009) London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Jivka MARINOVA
Jivka Marinova is the founder and present executive director of the Bulgarian NGO Gender Education, Research and Technologies (GERT). She has an engineering background and has been working for fifteen years in the field of information analysis and communications. She joined the civil society in 1998 and began working on women's rights, specifically on the issue of violence against women. Her work is focused mainly on raising the awareness of society on the existing issues and inequalities faced by women and children, such as violence, trafficking, and sexual exploitation, as well as the digital divide, economic discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, and age. Jivka is the author of the Bulgarian report "Gender assessment of the impact of EU accession on the economic status of women", published in 2003 within a UNIFEM funded KARAT project. She is the author as well of the national midterm MDGs report on Goal 3, published in 2008. Researcher and committed activist of women's human rights she was involved in UN ICPD+ and Beijing+ processes, she is also member of international women's networks as KARAT, ASTRA, APC/WNSP and WIDE.
Michaela MARKSOVÀ-TOMINOVÀ
Michaela Marksová-Tominová works as a Head of Department of Equal Opportunities in Education at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport.
She worked as a Head of Department of Family Policy and Equal Opportunities at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic 2004-2007.
In 1997-2004 she worked as a Managing Director in Gender Studies (NGO) in Prague - an information, education and advocacy centre on gender issues and women´s rights, which posses the biggest library on these issues in the Czech Republic.
She is a member of Governmental Council of Equal Opportunities of Women and Men. She worked as an external advisor on equal opportunities of Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in 2000-2002 and as a gender focal point (part-time) at the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic in 2002-2004.
She is a Chairwoman of Association of Equal Opportunities, which unites about 15 Czech women´s organisations founded after 1989, and board member of KARAT Coalition.
Writes articles and comments for printed media, appears in TV and radio.
Mayra MORO-COCO
Mayra Moro-Coco is Policy and Advocacy Officer at Ayuda en Acción. She is a Ph.D candidate on Political Science at the University of Montreal (Canada) and holds a Master on International Relations at the Autonoma University (Madrid). Her education has been completed at the London School of Economics (London), Columbia University (NY) and NYU (NY) on International Relations and Political Science. As a researcher, feminist activist and consultant on International NGOs and at the UN, her career has focused on Women Human Rights, gender and development, SRHR and conflict and violence against women. She also has published in several academic reviews and she has lectured on political economy of African Wars and power relations on African conflicts in English, French and Spanish.
Patricia MUÑOZ CABRERA
Patricia has been collaborating with WIDE since 1997 as strategic and policy advisor on gender, trade and sustainable development issues. Amongst other activities, she participated in the project EU-LA Trade Agreements and worked as advocacy support in particular following up on SIAS (Sustainable Impact Assessment) of Trade Agreements. Between 2002 and 2004 she joined WIDE board as Treasurer.
She began working on the field of development co-operation in 1995, with specific focus on sustainable livelihoods, agriculture and food security/sovereignty. Between 1994 and 2000, she also had the opportunity to work on policy analysis related to debt and WB poverty reduction policies. Between 1997 and 2003 she worked for Oxfam Belgium and Netherlands (NOVIB) as programme manager for Central America and the Caribbean. She just submitted her PhD at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. Her main area of research is theories of empowerment and their link with emancipatory narratives. She has chosen the experience of US black women writers and feminists as case study.
Examining pathways to women's empowerment and their capacity to influence decision-making, which has a direct impact in their livelihoods, has been a major concern throughout her life, both personally and professionally.
With this idea in mind, it is with enthusiasm and commitment that she is applying to become a Board member. She sees her role as contributing to WIDE's ongoing process of analytical thinking. Importantly, she also sees herself as contributing to the enhancement of WIDE's strategic vision and planning, as well as to supporting WIDE's process of institutional development.
Ito PENG
Ito Peng, is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, and the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto. She is also currently the Director of Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies at Munk Centre for International Studies at University of Toronto. She teaches political sociology, and comparative social and health policy, specializing in gender policies and East Asian welfare states. She has written extensively on gender and welfare states in Japan and Korea, and political economy of social policy reforms in East Asia. Her current research includes: 1) UNRISD project on political and social economy of care, which looks at the changes in the nature of paid and unpaid work and care and their implications for gender equality; 2) SSHRC funded project comparing social investment policies in Canada, Australia, Japan, and South Korea; and 3) an international comparative research project with Kyoto University on changing public and intimate spheres, which examines changes in family and gender relations, intra-regional care migration, and social policies in Asia. Professor Peng is an associate researcher for the UNRISD and a research fellow at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Dr. Peng received her Ph.D. from London School of Economics.
Shahrashoub RAZAVI
Shahra Razavi is Research Co-ordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), where she oversees the Institute's Programme on Gender and Development. She began her collaboration with UNRISD in 1993, after completing her Doctorate at Oxford University.
She has conceptualized and coordinated global comparative research projects in a number of areas, including on Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights; Globalization, Export-Oriented Employment for Women and Social Policy; and Gender Justice, Development and Rights; Gender and Social Policy; and The Political and Social Economy of Care. In 2004-5, she coordinated the preparation of an UNRISD flagship report, Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World, which was the Institute's contribution to the "Beijing +10" process.
Annemarie SANCAR
Annemarie Sancar holds a PhD in social anthropology on Ethnicity. She works in the field of ethnic identities among refugees and does research on different topics around migration and "integration" of immigrants. She was involved in a study about the situation of immigrant women in the canton of Berne with recommendations for policy makers and the administration, and is expert in critical communication, deconstructing discursive practices around topics like immigrant women, Muslim culture, racists and sexist forms of explaining exclusion etc. Since 6 years Annemarie Sancar is senior gender advisor for SDC (Swiss Agency for development and cooperation) with main focus on rural development, access to assets and questions of care economy, time use and women's employment in development programs.
Brigitte SCHNEGG
Dr. Brigitte Schnegg holds a PhD in History and a MA in History and French Literature from the University of Berne. Since 2001 she is Director of the Interdisziplinary Center for Gender Studies of the University of Berne and member of the Academic Board of the Graduate School "Gender: Scripts and Prescripts". She teaches theory of Gender Studies at the University of Bern. She is responsible for a current research project on "Welfare, Marginality and Gender. Social Work in late 19th and 20th century Switzerland" and for the country study on Switzerland within the UNRISD Study on Care Economy. She is Associate Professor for History at the Department for Social Work of University for Applied Sciences of Berne and held numerous Teaching Positions in History and Gender History at several Swiss Universities during the last two decades. 2009 she was a member of the Swiss Delegation at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York on "Equal Sharing of Responsibilities between Women and Men, including Care-Giving in the Context of HIV/AIDS".
Anna ZACHOROWSKA-MAZURKIEWICZ
Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz is a member of Feminist Think Tank, Polish foundation that aims to enhance the impact of women by developing action oriented research and analysis, courses, workshops and seminars. She is also an assistant professor in the Institute of Economics and Management, Faculty of Management and Social Communication at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She holds a Ph.D. in economics. Her research interests focus on institutional and feminist economics. She has written about economic situation of women in the EU and transition economies, especially Poland, social and economic inequalities, as well as women and globalisation and economic integration. She was a fellow of the GEM-IWG Gender and Macroeconomics Summer School.