Shahra Razavi

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Shahra Razavi (Shahrashoub Razavi) is an Iranian-born academic and senior United Nations official specialising in gender and social development. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Oxford University, Razavi is currently Director of the Social Protection Department of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.[1]

Razavi obtained a Bachelor of Science from the London School of Economics.[2] She completed a master's degree and Doctorate of Philosophy at St Anthony's College, University of Oxford.[3][4]

From 1993 to 2013, Razavi was Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).[5] Razavi praised the 2012 World Development Report's proposed microeconomic reforms to tackle economic gender inequality, but criticised the report for not addressing the ways in which macroeconomic policies disadvantaged women, who make up a majority of smallholders.[6] As a guest contributor, Razavi presented the sociological and economic analysis of the caretaker role of women on the journal of the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research in Japan. This evaluated and lead to further discussion on the family-centered Care Diamond social welfare scheme the Japanese government pioneers among countries with larger aged population of baby-boomers and declining birthrates.[7] In 2012, Ravazi went to the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICGS), the University of Bern, as a visiting professor to also work with Brigitte Schnegg, a Swiss feminist historian and the founder of the centre.[8]

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