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GEM-IWG FELLOWS 2009
Naa Anyekey Akofio-Sowah
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Ph.D Candidate in Economics, Clark University
Intern, Office of the Special Advisor on Africa
United Nations
New York, USA
Salimata Bocoum
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Regional Coordinator
African Women’s Millennium Initiative (AWOMI)
Dakar, Senegal
Nouhoun Coulibaly
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Chief of the Department of Studies and Research
Institute National de la Statstique de Cote d’Ivorie
Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
Surajit Das
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Economist
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP)
New Delhi, India
Lorena R. Escobar-Pérez
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Chief of Economics Section
Sendas Foundation
Cuenca, Ecuador
Mayela Freyre
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Project Coordinator
Ministry of Women and Social Development
MIMDES of Perú
Lima, Perú
Kaushik Ganguly
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Economist
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CGGA)
New Delhi, India
Roxana Gallegos Guerra
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Gender Focal Person 
Cooperation Sector
Delegation of the European Commission in Peru
Lima, Perú 
Taitu Ababa Heron
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Manager
Social Development and Gender Department
The Planning Institute of Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica 
Gisela Carrasco-i-Miro
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Liaison Office, Guatemala City
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Guatemala
Ozge Izdes
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Ph. D. Candidate and Instructor 
Department of Economics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, USA
Grzegorz Konat
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Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economic Policy
Warsaw School of Economics
Researcher, Institute for Market
Consumption and Business Cycles Research
Warsaw, Poland
Tamar Khitarishvili
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Assistant Professor of Economics and
Research Scholar
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
New York, USA
Jacqueline Morse
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Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics 
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
John Okiror
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Principal Economist
Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development
Kampala, Uganda
Nilanjan Patra
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Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Centre for Economic Study and Planning (JNU)
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
Hurshid Rustamov
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Program Coordinator
Economics Governance Unit
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Country Office
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Mira Ibidat Said
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Global Network Arab Coordinator and Trainer
The Democracy and Workers Rights Center
East Jerusalem, Israel
Eka Sepashvili
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Associate Professor of Tbilisi State University
Faculty of Economics and Business
GEM-IWG, Member
Tbilisi, Georgia
Heather Starzynski
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Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Missouri, USA
Jooyeoun Suh
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Ph.D. Candidate
University of Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Tacko Ndiaye
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UNIFEM
Program Specialist
New York, USA
Jianhua Tang
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Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Professor, China Agriculture University
Beijing, China
Sylvia Tereka
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Member of the Board
National Planning Authority
Kampala, Uganda
Taun Nicholaus Toay
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Ph.D. Candidate
New School for Social Research and
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Yelda Yucel
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Senior Economist
Yapi Kredi Bankasi
Istanbul, Turkey