Care Work and the Economy has an active advisory board that helps to guide and support key decisions of the research project. The Advisory Board includes distinguished gender experts from academia, think tanks, and international organizations.
Caren Grown, Senior Director for Gender at the World Bank Group, is recognized internationally as an expert on gender and development. Before joining the Bank Group in 2014, she was Economist-in-Residence and Co-Director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics at American University. From 2013-2014, she led the UNU-WIDER program on aid effectiveness and gender equality, and from 2011-2013 she served as Senior Gender Adviser and Acting Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at USAID. Among her previous positions, Dr. Grown has been Senior Scholar and Co-Director of the Gender Equality and Economy Program at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Governance team at the International Center for Research on Women, and Senior Program Officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Diane Elson, from the United Kingdom, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at Essex University, Visiting Professor at the WiSE Research Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University and Research Associate at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University. She is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and is a consultant to UN Women. In 2016, Dr. Elson was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She has served as chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group and as Vice-President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She is the author of many publications and articles on gender equality and economic policy.
Emiko Ochiai is a Professor of Sociology at Kyoto University. She completed her post-graduate studies in Sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1987. She was a lecturer at the Doshisha Women’s College from 1987 to 1993, a visiting research fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure from 1993 to 1994, and an associate professor at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies from 1994 to 2003.Specializing in family sociology and family history, Ochiai is also active in the field of gender studies. Her publications in English include: The Japanese Family System in Transition: A Sociological Analysis of Family Change in Postwar Japan, Tokyo: LTCB International Library Foundation, 1997. Asia’s New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies, co-editor with Barbara Molony, Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2008. The Stem Family in EurAsian Perspective, co-editor with Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. “Care Diamonds and Welfare Regimes in East and South-East Asian Societies: Bridging Family and Welfare Sociology & ” International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 18: 60-78, 2009. “The Birth of the Housewife in Contemporary Asia: Globalization and the Modern Family.” In Ochiai and Molony eds., Asia’s New Mothers.
Nancy Folbre’s research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work and the size of care penalties. In addition to numerous articles published in academic journals, she is the editor of For Love and Money: Care Work in the U.S. (Russell Sage, 2012), and the author of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford, 2009), Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family (Harvard, 2008), and The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New Press, 2001). She has also written widely for a popular audience, including contributions to the New York Times Economix blog, The Nation, and the American Prospect.
Dr. Young Ock Kim is a Senior Fellow of Korean Women’s Development Institute (KWDI). Kim holds a PhD in Economics from Korea University with the dissertation “The Financial Constraint and Investment Behavior of Korean Firms: The Estimation of Tobin’s Q Model”. Dr. Kim currently serves as a Board Member of the Korean Women Economists Association.
