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Diane Elson
Diane Elson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. She is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy, and adviser to UN Women. She is a former Vice President of the International Association for Feminist Economics and is currently chair of the UK Women's Budget Group. She has published widely on gender equality and economic policy, including articles in World Development, Journal of International Development, Feminist Economics, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, and International Review of Applied Economics. Her recent books include (ed. with I. van Staveren, C. Grown and N. Cagatay) Feminist economics of trade, 2007; (ed. with B. Young and I. Bakker) Financial governance from a feminist perspective, 2011; (ed. with R. Balakrishnan) Economic policy and human rights obligations, 2011; (ed. with D. Jain) Harvesting feminist knowledge for public policy, 2011; and (ed. with S. Fukuda-Parr and P. Vizard) Human rights and the capabilities approach. An interdisciplinary dialogue, 2012.