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CWGL - Center for Women's Global
Leadership
Website: http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/
E-Mail: cwgl@igc.org
March 26, 2009
The
Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) is pleased to announce the hiring
of Radhika Balakrishnan as its new executive director. She will begin her
duties on September 1, 2009, and will join the faculty as a full Professor in
the Rutgers Department of Women’s and Gender Studies as her academic
affiliation.
Dr.
Balakrishnan comes to CWGL from
Her
publications include: Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human
Rights Perspective with Diane Elson and Raj Patel, 2009; Why MES with
Human Rights: Integrating Macro Economic Strategies with Human Rights,
2005; The Hidden Assembly Line: Gender Dynamics of Subcontracted Work in a
Global Economy, 2001; and Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the
World’s Religions, co-edited with Patricia Jung and Mary Hunt, 2000. She is
currently working on a project applying human rights norms to evaluate and
construct macro economic policy in the
Citing
her attraction to CWGL’s work, Radhika stated, “My interests have always been
to combine academic research with policy advocacy on women’s rights issues with
a focus on economics. For me research serves as a means to develop the capacity
of activists around the world to respond to various challenges and to create
new linkages and contexts for collaboration between disparate groups of change
agents, seeding new dialogues and partnerships.”
As
Radhika begins her tenure at CWGL, founder and current executive director,
Charlotte Bunch will begin her transition to a new role as Senior Scholar to
the
CWGL
was founded at
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