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Rania Antonopoulos is an Associate Professor at Bard College and Research Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute where in 2004–5 she initiated the planning of the Gender Equality and the Economy program. She specializes in gender and economics, international competition and globalization, and long-run determinants of foreign exchange rates. Her publications include “Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand,” forthcoming in Journal of Income Distribution (coauthored); “A Classical Political Economy Approach to Exchange Rates Analysis,” Review of Radical Political Economics, and “Explaining Long-Term Exchange Rate Behavior in the United States and Japan,” a Levy Institute Working Paper (coauthored). Antonopoulos has been a consultant for UNDP and since 2002, a co-principal investigator and co-coordinator for the Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics Program (GEM-IWG). Her current research is focused on gender-aware, employer-of-last-resort policies and economic modeling that includes unpaid work. Antonopoulos received a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research.