Public Finance and Gender Budgeting

Professor Lekha Chakraborty - Public Policies for Gender Equality

We are pleased to invite interested students and faculty to come to an informal seminar on the topic Public Policies for Gender Equality, including gender responsive budgeting and public finance measures, with Professor Dr Lekha Chakraborty, a leading international expert on these topics, who has been closely involved in both research and policy in India and globally for many years.

The seminar will be held at December 1st, 2025 at 11am in Furman Hall 334 and hosted by Professor Miranda Stewart, Director of the NYU International Tax Program. To attend, please rsvp by emailing Greg Zwahlen: gpz200@nyu.edu

Professor Chakraborty is a Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India; Research Faculty Associate, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College; and an elected Member of the Governing Board of Management at the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) Munich, the world association of public finance economists. She is a pioneer economist in institutionalizing gender budgeting in India, with Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India, in 2004. Her areas of interest are macroeconomics of public finance, fiscal federalism, climate financing, extractive sector economics, financing human development, and gender budgeting. Her latest book is 'Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific: Gender Budgeting in India' (published by Palgrave Macmillan). She is also the author of "Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits, and Macroeconomics" by Sage Publications and co-author of the book "Social Sector in Decentralized Economy: India in the Era of Globalization," published by Cambridge University Press. She has worked for the IMF, ILO, the World Bank, UNESCAP, the UNDP, UN Women, and the Commonwealth Secretariat and across many countries in the world.