BIO
Caren A. Grown is a senior scholar and codirector (with Diane Elson) of the Gender Equality and the Economy Program at The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Her current research focuses on gender equality, public finance, and international trade and investment. Previously, Dr. Grown directed the Poverty Reduction and Economic Governance team at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), where she worked on a range of issues related to gender, poverty, and economic policy. During her term at ICRW, she served as senior associate of Task Force 3 of the UN Millennium Project on gender equality and women’s empowerment. From 1992 to 2001, she was a senior program officer at the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, where she managed research networks and competitions on a wide range of economic, governance, and population issues. Before joining the MacArthur Foundation, she was an economist with the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Dr. Grown has edited and authored several books and numerous articles on gender equality. Her most recent book (coedited with Elissa Braunstein and Anju Malhotra) is Trading Women’s Health and Rights: The Role of Trade Liberalization and Development (Zed Books, 2006). She is the lead author (with Geeta Rao Gupta) of Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women (Earthscan Press, 2005), and coauthor (with Gita Sen) of Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women’s Perspectives (Monthly Review Press, 1987). She has guest coedited three special issues of World Development on macroeconomics, international trade, and gender inequality, and has written widely on gender and development issues. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles.