## Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality Conference — Participant Biographies ## Source details **Canonical URL:** [Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality Conference — Participant Biographies](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/news/seminars/fiscalpoliciesandgenderequalityconferencenov72016-bios.pdf) ## Other formats - [Markdown version](/-/media/files/news/seminars/fiscalpoliciesandgenderequalityconferencenov72016-bios.pdf.md) - [Structured JSON version](/-/media/files/news/seminars/fiscalpoliciesandgenderequalityconferencenov72016-bios.pdf.json) --- ### Key speakers and senior figures - Sheila MacVicar, Independent Journalist - Award-winning anchor and senior TV correspondent; recently hosted Al Jazeera America's foreign policy show Compass and was a senior correspondent for America Tonight reporting mostly on intelligence and social issues. - Originally from Montreal; correspondent for more than three decades. - First joined CBC where she was co-host of a primetime current affairs magazine; later worked as a foreign correspondent for ABC News, CNN and CBS News. - Reporting has earned her three Emmys, a Peabody and a duPont Award. - Ms. MacVicar is a spouse of an IMF COM staff. - Julie Delahanty, Executive Director, Oxfam Canada - Executive Director of Oxfam Canada; leader on gender equality and human rights with more than 20 years of international development experience. - Former Director of the Central America Program for Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs; served as Director of CIDA’s Gender Equality and Child Protection Division. - Written extensively on gender and employment, agricultural biodiversity, sexual and reproductive health and rights, garments and globalization. - Sits on the Executive Board of Oxfam International and acts as the gender champion for the world-wide influencing and campaigning work of the organization. - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women - Sworn into office on 19 August 2013. - Career spanning government, civil society, and private sector; actively involved in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. - From 2005 to 2008 served as Deputy President of South Africa, overseeing programs to combat poverty and extend economic gains to the poor, with particular focus on women. - Laura Tyson, Director, Institute for Business and Social Impact, University of California–Berkeley - Professor of business administration and economics; former dean at the Haas School of Business and London Business School. - Served as Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and as Director of the White House National Economic Council; first woman to serve in both positions. - Helped Berkeley-Haas pioneer corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship. - Advisor and board director for Fortune 500 corporations and major non-profit organizations. ### IMF, World Bank, and multilateral institution representatives - Sanjeev Gupta, Deputy Director, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department - Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department; previously in IMF African and European Departments. - Led IMF missions to some 25 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. - Former fellow of the Kiel Institute of World Economics, Professor at the Administrative Staff College of India, and Secretary of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. - Authored/coauthored over 150 papers and authored/coauthored/coedited eleven books; recent IMF books include: - The Economics of Public Health Care Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies, 2012 - Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications, 2013 - Equitable and Sustainable Pensions: Challenges and Experiences, 2014 - Fiscal Policy and Inequality, September 2015 - Otaviano Canuto, Executive Director, World Bank - Executive director on the Board of the World Bank for Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. - Former vice president and senior adviser at the World Bank; previously served as executive director of the IMF and vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank. - Former State Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance and professor of economics at the University of Sao Paulo and UNICAMP. - Mayra Buvinic, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development - Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the United Nations Foundation. - Previously Director for Gender and Development at the World Bank; headed the Social Development Division at the Inter-American Development Bank. - Founding member and President of the International Center for Research on Women. - Holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. ### Academic experts on gender, development, and economics - Stephan Klasen, Professor, University of Göttingen - Professor of Development Economics; director of the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research. - Coordinator of the Courant Research Center 'Poverty, equity, and growth in developing and transition countries.' - Holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University; held positions at the World Bank, King's College Cambridge, and the University of Munich. - Research focuses on poverty, inequality, environment, and gender. - Member of the UN Committee on Development Policy; President of the European Development Research Network; served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the 5th Assessment Report. - Rohini Pande, Professor, Harvard University - Economist studying institutional design and policy implementation in the developing world, focusing on enabling public policies for effective redistribution. - Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. - Founder and co-director of the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) Initiative; research on institutional design to empower disadvantaged groups and on information improvements enabling flexible regulation and efficient outcomes. - Diane Elson, Professor Emerita, University of Essex, UK and UK Women’s Budget Group - Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at Essex University; Visiting Professor at the WiSE Research Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University; Research Associate at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University. - Member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and consultant to UN Women. - Awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2016. - Former chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group and Vice-President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. - Published widely on gender equality and economic policy; co-edited and co-authored multiple books including Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy, Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach, Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective, Economic Policy and Human Rights Obligations and Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice. ### Moderators - Janet Stotsky, Visiting Scholar, IMF Research Department (Moderator) - Visiting scholar in the Research Department of the IMF; led the IMF project on gender budgeting. - Former manager and mission chief in IMF departments including Fiscal Affairs, African Department, and Office of Budget and Planning. - Holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. - Caren Grown, Senior Director, Gender, World Bank (Moderator) - Internationally recognized expert on gender issues in development. - Former Economist-In-Residence and co-director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics at American University. - Led the UNU-WIDER program on aid effectiveness and gender equality (2013–2014) resulting in 22 commissioned papers and a global synthesis. - Served as Senior Gender Advisor and Acting Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at USAID (2011–2013), crafting the Agency’s Gender Equality and Female Empowerment policy. ### Additional participants and practitioners - Lekha Chakraborty, Associate Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Delhi - Economist at NIPFP (a think tank of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India). - Author of Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficit and Macroeconomic Activity (Sage Publications, September 2016). - Pioneered institutionalizing gender budgeting within India’s Ministry of Finance in 2004–05. - Affiliated to Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. - Recipient of the DFIAT award from Government of Canada twice and the Infosys best thesis (paper) national award from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. - Tamoya Christie, Economist, Gender, World Bank - Economist in the World Bank’s Gender Unit; published research on fiscal policy, gender inequality and economic growth. - Former Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of the West Indies and at the State University of New York. - Policy experience at the Central Bank in Jamaica and the Fiscal Research Center in Georgia, USA. - Consultant to the Government of Jamaica, the Inter-American Development Bank, the IMF and the World Bank. - Holds a PhD in Economics from Georgia State University and double Masters Degrees from the University of Oxford in Development Economics and Latin American Studies. - Lisa Kolovich, Economist, IMF Strategy, Policy, and Review Department - Economist in SPR and RES involved with a five-year joint research project funded by the UK's Department for International Development. - Research examines gender budgeting initiatives, output diversification and gender inequality, and gender inequality and human capital accumulation. - Former program evaluator for U.S. Department of Labor initiatives and consultant for the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. - Lucía Pérez Fragoso, Economist, Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, AC, México - Economist at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico); Master’s degree from the University of Manchester; diploma in Economic Development and courses in Feminist Leadership and Feminist Economics. - Coordinator of the Department of Public Budgets at the Mexican NGO Gender Equality, Citizenship, Work and Family; coordinates projects analyzing and developing public budgets with a gender equity approach. - Extensive experience as researcher, consultant and seminarian; participates in international networks of Feminist Economics. - Sheila Quinn, Independent scholar - Independent scholar providing consultancy, technical support, research and training on gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting; also works on LGBT rights. - Graduate of Columbia University and University College Dublin. - Focused on how budget institutions and public administration can accommodate gender as a category of analysis; has designed and delivered numerous training programmes. - Adil Hidane, Coordinator of the Centre of Excellence in Gender Budgeting, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Morocco - Acting Director of Studies and Financial Forecasts at the Ministry of Economy and Finance; head of the division of macroeconomic studies between 2011 and 2013. - Active participant in elaboration of Morocco's Gender Budget Report since 2005; represented Morocco at national and international gender budgeting meetings. - Worked on studies in governance and public management. - Yamini Mishra, Gender Responsive Budgeting Specialist, Asia Pacific, UN Women, India - Regional GRB Specialist for the Regional Office for Asia Pacific for UN Women; provides GRB technical support to member states, regional bodies, UN agencies and civil society in Asia Pacific. - Invited by the Government of India to several committees including the Feminist Economist Committee set up by the Planning Commission of India. - Former Executive Director, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), Delhi; earlier worked with the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, The Ford Foundation and Oxfam (Great Britain). - Published articles and reports in mainstream newspapers and academic journals. - Friederike Schwarzendorfer, Deputy Director General, Directorate for Budget and Public Finance, Federal Ministry of Finance, Austria - Holds a law degree from the University of Vienna; practiced at several judicial courts in Vienna. - More than 30 years’ experience in the Budget General Directorate at the Federal Ministry of Finance; worked in budget fields of defence, environment, social family welfare, and justice. - Served as head of the department dealing with budgets of the Ministries of Interior, Justice, and Defence. - Since 2009 Deputy Director General of the Budget General Directorate; coordinator for training measures concerning the budget reform. - Involved in implementation of the Budget Reform in Austria including performance budgeting and gender budgeting; represented Austria in OECD budget meetings. - Sylvia Tereka, Gender Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Uganda - Holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies. - Spearheaded implementation of the Gender and Equity Certificate Clause in the Public Finance Management Act, 2015, making it mandatory for government institutions to address gender and equity issues in budgeting. - Gender and Equity Budgeting Manager for the DFID-funded programme ''Support to Uganda's Response for Gender Equality (SURGE)'' aimed at building government capacity to implement gender and equity budgeting and enforce compliance to the PFM law. - Over fifteen years in technical, advisory and management positions within the UN and national government in development and humanitarian work, including roles in conflict resolution and internal displacement responses. - Former Civil Affairs Officer with UN Transitional Administration in East Timor; contributed to formulation of Health Sector Rehabilitation Plan in post conflict East Timor. - Former National Health Economist at the World Health Organization for 8 years; provided technical support to Primary Health Care Programme, Health Policy and Planning, Health Financing Programme, and Monitoring progress towards Health for All/2000. - Former Economist with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development contributing to Uganda’s Economic Recovery Plans. - Catherine Pattillo, Assistant Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF - Assistant Director in the Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF; former Assistant Director in the Strategy, Policy and Review Department serving as a senior country reviewer. - Worked on gender, climate, labor market and inequality, investment and development issues; formerly Chief of the Low-Income Countries Strategy Unit. - Former mission chief in the Western Hemisphere Department; worked in the African and Research Departments. - Holds a B.A. from Harvard University and Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. - Former fellow at Oxford University, Centre for the Study of African Economies and St. Antony’s College. - Research interests and publications in growth, investment, debt, monetary and exchange rate policies, aid, currency crises, macroeconomic policies and economic development, monetary policies, gender, income distribution and labor markets, and firm performance in Africa. --- _Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/news/seminars/fiscalpoliciesandgenderequalityconferencenov72016-bios.pdf_