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Caren Grown, an internationally recognized expert on gender issues in development, served as Global Director of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳¡¯s Gender Group from 2014-2021. She led the development and implementation of the 2016-2023 Gender Strategy which targeted gaps in endowments, jobs, assets, and increasing women¡¯s leadership and voice. Dr. Grown also led collaboration across the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group and with development partners to generate evidence on what boosts gender equality, and to identify emerging challenges and opportunities to close the gaps between men and women.? ?

Prior to joining the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group, Dr. Grown was economist-in-residence and co-director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics at American University in Washington, D.C.?Over the course of her career Dr. Grown has led efforts on gender equality for a number of organizations, including the UNU-WIDER program on aid effectiveness and gender equality, as Senior Gender Advisor at USAID where she led the development of the Agency¡¯s Gender Equality policy, and as senior scholar and co-director of the Gender Equality and Economy Program at The Levy Economics Institute at Bard College.

Dr. Grown has authored and edited several books including Taxation and Gender Equity, co-edited with Imraan Valodia (Routledge 2010),?The Feminist Economics of Trade, co-edited with Irene Van Staveren, Diane Elson, and Nilufer Cagatay (Routledge 2007), and?Trading Women's Health and Rights: the Role of Trade Liberalization and Development,?co-edited with Elissa Braunstein and Anju Malhotra (Zed Books 2006). She is the author (with Geeta Rao Gupta) of?Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women?(Earthscan Press 2005) and co-author with Gita Sen of?Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives?(Monthly Review Press 1987). Her articles have appeared in?World Development,?Journal of International Development,?Feminist Economics,?Health Policy and Planning, and?The Lancet.

Dr. Grown was an associate editor of?Feminist Economics?(2007-2014), a founding member of the International Working Group on Gender and Macroeconomics, and a member of the?Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Hub, Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. She holds a PhD and MA in Economics from the New School for Social Research and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.