Maria S. Floro
American University
Washington, DC USA

Maria S. Floro is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at American University, teaching in the fields of gender development finance, and development economics. In 1987, she received her doctorate from Stanford University. Her publications include the books Credit Markets and the New Institutional Economics and Women's Work in the World Economy (co-edited), and journal articles on gender dimensions of topics including time allocation, informal sector, financial crises, credit, savings and asset ownership. Her recent research focuses on gender dimensions of financing strategies for development, time use analysis, and informalization of employment, credit and financial distress among urban poor households in both Latin America and Asia. She has been a member of IAFFE since the early 90s. She has served as board member of IAFFE since 2004. More recently she has been an associate editor and editorial board member of Feminist Economics, as well as member of the nominations committee, finance committee and the international committee. In addition, she served in the 2005 ad hoc committee on FE Editor Evaluation and the 2006 Treasurer Search ad hoc committee.

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