Bina Agarwal, co-winner of the 2024 Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA), will give a lecture at Paris School of Economics on March 19, 2025.

The GiRA aims to recognize researchers from all disciplines who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of global inequalities.

30 years after the publication of A Field of One’s Own (CUP 1994), the first GiRA was awarded to Bina Agarwal for her major work on gender inequalities, environmental governance, feminist environmentalism and environmental inequalities.

 

Programme

  • 18:00 Introduction by Lucas Chancel
  • 18:05 Award presentation by Thomas Piketty
  • 18:15 Lecture by Bina Agarwal “Hidden inequalities, Visible outcomes: Gender and social norms”
  • 19:00 Q&A
  • 19:30 Closing

 

 Practical details

📅 Wednesday 19 March, 18:00-19:30 (CET)

📍 Amphitheatre Daniel Cohen, Paris School of Economics, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, Paris 14e (in person, no livestream).

🎙 The conference will be held in English.

✍️ Admission is free. To register, click here.

This event is organized in partnership with Sciences Po’s Centre for Research on Social InequalitieS (CRIS). It is part of the Equality Debates series organized by the World Inequality, which aims to present new research on inequality, followed by an open discussion with the audience.

 

Biography

Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. She was earlier Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, where she is still affiliated.

She has been President, International Society for Ecological Economics; President, International Association for Feminist Economics; Vice-President, International Economic Association; and held distinguished visiting positions at Harvard, Princeton, and Cambridge, among other universities.

Agarwal’s books and academic papers cover diverse subjects in agriculture, environmental change, land rights and law, especially from a gender and political economy perspective. Her writings on gender inequality in property and on environmental governance have had global impact. Among her notable books are the award-winning, A Field of One’s Own (CUP 1994); Gender and Green Governance (OUP, 2010); and Gender Challenges (OUP, 2016), a three volume compendium of her selected papers. In 2005 she also led a successful civil society campaign to make the Hindu Inheritance law gender equal.

Agarwal’s many awards include a Padma Shri in 2008, from the President of India; three book prizes; the 2010 Leontief Prize, USA for ‘advancing the frontiers of economic thought’; the 2017 Louis Malassis International Scientist Prize, France, for “a distinguished career in agricultural economics”; the International Balzan Prize 2017 “for challenging established premises in economics and the social sciences by using an innovative gender perspective”; the Kenneth Boulding award in Ecological Economics 2023; and the first Global Inequality Research Award, 2024, France.

 

Contact

Alice Fauvel, Communications Manager: alice.fauvel@psemail.eu