Radhika Balakrishnan

Radhika Balakrishnan (born in Ootacamund, India) is the faculty director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University.

[1] Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Board of the United States Human Rights Network and Chair on the Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Commissioner for the Commission for Gender Equity for the City of New York,[2][3] and President of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) for 2020-2021.

[4] Radhika Balakrishnan grew up in Tamil Nadu, India and moved to Chicago, Illinois at the age of 13.

[5] She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign initially to study engineering, but switched majors and graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

[7][8] From 2003 to 2009, she was a professor at Marymount Manhattan College where she taught economics and international studies [6][9] In September 2009, she joined Rutgers University as a professor of Women's and Gender Studies and the executive director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership,[6][10] where she focused on issues of economics and social justice from a feminist perspective as they relate to macroeconomic policy, especially in health and education.