Ritu Dewan
Ritu Dewan
Visiting Professor
Prof. Ritu Dewan is the President of the 64th Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Human Development, Co-Founder of the Feminist Policy Collective, Trustee of Center for Budget and Governance Accountability, Trustee of The India Forum, Director of The Leaflet, President of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (2014-17), President of Alumni Association of Mumbai School of Economics & Public Policy, Vice President of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (2019-22). She was the first-ever woman Director of the Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, and the founder-member of the first Centre for Gender Economics in Asia.
She has over 250 publications, including 56 books and monographs, encompassing a wide range of issues including Development Economics, Gender Studies & Gender Economics, Rural and Urban Development, Infrastructure, Labour Markets, Environmental Displacement, Peace Studies, etc. She was a member of the Feminist Economists’ Group for Engendering the 12thand 11th Five Year Plans as well as of the sub-group on ‘Gender and Macro-policies’ appointed by the Planning Commission, Government of India. She is also Consultant to UNDP, UN Women, ILO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, World Wildlife Fund, Action Aid, etc. She is closely associated with training and capacity-building related specially to gender budgeting and gender issues, and has conducted over 300 workshops for the Central Government and also several state governments including Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, etc. Her research focus – which interlinks academics, advocacy and action – is the result of issues related to the marginalised. Her last three books are Invisible Work Invisible Workers: The Sub-Economies of Paid and Unpaid Work; Demonetisation: From Deprivation to Destitution, and Pandemic, Patriarchy and Precarity: Labour, Livelihood and Mobility Rights.
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