Naila kabeer biography

Naila Kabeer (Bengali: নায়লা কবির; born 28 January 1950)^[1] is an Indian-born British Bangladeshisocial economist, research fellow, writer and professor at the London School of Economics.

She was also president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2018 to 2019.^[2] She is on the editorial committee of journals such as Feminist Economist, Development and Change, Gender and Development, Third World Quarterly and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.^[3] She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues.

Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, focused on South and South East Asia.

Early life

Kabeer was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, but her family migrated to East Bengal, (now Bangladesh) soon after.^[4] She went to school at Loreto Convent in Shillong in India.

In 1969, she came t