Keynotespeaker
Gita Sen
Gita Sen has over thirty years of experience working for gender equality and women’s human rights as a respected scholar, a skilled negotiator, and a powerful advocate.
A citizen of India, Gita holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. She is a professor of public policy at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India, and also adjunct professor of population and international health at Harvard University. She is on the Governing Body of the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex.
As a scholar, her book, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women’s Perspectives, written as a contribution to the UN women’s conference in Nairobi is a classic that helped transform thinking on gender and development.
She is a founder member of DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South, and is their research coordinator on the Political Economy of Globalisation. She also provides advice and support to many civil society organizations and networks in both the South and North. Read more
Richard G. Wilkinson
Richard G. Wilkinson co-author of the book “The Sprit Level” will give a keynote speech on the opening day of the assembly. He has played a formative role in international research on the social determinants of health and on the societal effects of income inequality; his work has been published in many languages.
He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, Honorary Professor at University College London and a Visiting Professor at the University of York.
In 2009 he was one of the founders of the Equality Trust
