Govind Kelkar
Govind Kelkar
Visiting Professor
Govind Kelkar PhD in Political Economy of China is Professor and Executive Director, GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation LLP, India as well as a Visiting Professor, Council for Social Development, India and Institute for Human Development, India. She was a Senior Adviser, Landesa/Rural Development Institute, Seattle, USA (May 2013-March 2020); and Regional Council Member of Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Chiang Mai, Thailand. In her concurrent assignments, Professor. Kelkar was the International Research Coordinator of ENERGIA International, The Netherlands and research lead on Gender and Energy at M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India. She is a Distinguished Adjunct Faculty of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. Professor Kelkar has the position of an Honorary Professor in Institute of Ethnology, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Yunnan, China, and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. Earlier, April 2004 to March 2012, she worked as “Senior Advisor: Programme and Research, Economic Empowerment Unit, UN Women, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India and coordinated Gender Mainstreaming in Asia, a region wide program of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for 6 years. She has previously taught at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. At AIT, Professor Kelkar founded the graduate program in Gender Development Studies and also the Gender, Technology and Development Journal, published by SAGE and now by Routledge India.
Govind Kelkar resides in Gurgaon, India. She has extensively worked on gender relations in rural energy and women’s land rights in Asia. She has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and written 16 books with a focus on gender relations in Asia and has been in close touch with the women’s movements in the region. She has recently completed two projects on gender and energy. 1. The Gender Factor in Political Economy of Energy Sector Dynamics (DFID-ENERGIA International supported) 2. Identifying Drivers and Barriers to Sustained Adoption of LPG as Clean Cooking Energy: Applying Lessons from India’s LPG programme to Nepal and Myanmar (MECS and DFID supported) Her recent book is
Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation (co-authored), Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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