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President-Elect
Stephanie Seguino
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT USA
Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA. After living in Italy and Greece for several years, she returned to the US to pursue a Master’s degree in Economics, and subsequently worked in Haiti for four years as an economist researching the export coffee market for U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Haiti experience stimulated her pursuit of a Ph.D. degree from American University, awarded in 1994, and a longer run research interest in the relationship between inequality, growth, and development as well as the determinants of well-being. Her recent work attempts to identify a unified framework for understanding the determinants of race and gender inequality. She is also currently engaged in a project to look at the differential unemployment effects of contractionary monetary policy on women and/or ethnic subaltern groups in developed and developing economies. A third research trajectory explores the reciprocal relationship between gender relations and macroeconomic outcomes, with a recent paper investigating the macroeconomic role gender plays in countries with a balance of payment constraint to growth. Finally, she has been active in analyzing the implications of the global economic crisis for women and/or ethnic subaltern groups.
She is a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute, Associate Editor of Feminist Economics, board member of Eastern Economics Association, and a member of the International Working Group on Engendering Macroeconomics and Trade Theory (IWG-GEM). This latter group collaborated for a number of years on research that integrated gender into macroeconomic and trade theory and analysis. For the past two years, she has been an instructor in the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE), a training programme in development economics for policy makers, researchers and civil society representatives from Africa and other developing countries.
She has collaborated with the AFL-CIO, UNDP, and United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) on a variety of research projects. Locally, Stephanie works with progressive groups in the State of Vermont on living wages and public sector spending. She recently stepped down as Associate Dean at the University of Vermont, where she worked to develop practices that would lead to greater diversity in faculty and staff hires. She carries that interest to IAFFE, with a desire to help to develop mechanisms for greater international representation and inclusion in the organization’s membership. She balances her intellectual life with a pursuit of art, primarily in the medium of photography.
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