Elson, Prof. Diane Rosemary

Education

St Hilda’s Coll., Oxford (BA Hons PPE 1968); Univ. of Manchester (PhD Econs 1994)

Career

Res. Asst, Inst. of Commonwealth Studies and St Antony’s Coll., Oxford, 1968–71; Teaching Fellow, Dept of Economics, Univ. of York, 1971–75; Res. Officer, Inst. of Develt Studies, Univ. of Sussex, 1975–77; Temp. Lectr, Univ. of Manchester, 1978–79; part-time consultant and occasional lectr, 1979–84; University of Manchester: Hon. Res. Fellow, Internat. Develt Centre and Dept of Sociol., 1984–85; Lectr, 1985–91, Reader, 1992–95, in Develt Econs; Prof. of Develt Studies, 1995–98; Special Advr, UN Develt Fund for Women, 1998–2000; Advr, UN Women, 2012–. Member: UN Taskforce on Millennium Develt Goals, 1998–2000; Strategic Res. Bd, ESRC, 2008–10; UN Cttee on Develt Policy, 2013–. (Jtly) Leontief Prize for Advancing Frontiers of Econ. Thought, Global Develt and Envmt Inst., Tufts Univ., 2016

Publications

Male Bias in the Development Process, 1991, 2nd edn 1995; Progress of World’s Women, 2000; Budgeting for Women’s Rights, 2006; (ed jtly) Economic Policy and Human Rights Obligations, 2011; (ed jtly) Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy, 2011; (ed jtly) Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective, 2011; (ed jtly) Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach: an interdisciplinary dialogue, 2012; (jtly) Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice, 2016

Recreations

gardening, bird watching, campaigning for women’s rights

Address

159 Wick Hall, Furze Hill, Hove BN3 1NJ

drelson@essex.ac.uk