Radhika Balakrishnan

Radhika Balakrishnan grew up in Tamil Nadu, India and moved to Chicago, Illinois at the age of 13.{{cite web|url=http://cms.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9637 |title=From Classrooms to Centre Stage: A Professor Who Speaks for Women |access-date=23 November 2010}} She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign initially to study engineering, but switched majors and graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. It was at the University of Illinois that she first became involved in the women's movement, which inspired her to study economics. In 1985 she received her Master of Arts in Economics, and in 1990 she received her Ph.D. in Economics, both from Rutgers University.{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/docman/staff-documents/484-balakrishnan-cv/file|title=Radhika Balakrishnan's Curriculum Vitae|access-date=27 September 2010}}

From 1992 to 1995, Radhika Balakrishnan worked at the Ford Foundation as a program officer in the Asian Regional Program.{{cite web |url=http://www.populareconomics.org/bios/balakrishnan_r.htm |title=Center for Popular Economics: Radhika Balakrishnan Bio |access-date=15 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205000907/http://www.populareconomics.org/bios/balakrishnan_r.htm |archive-date=2008-12-05 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://laffsociety.org/blog/?m=201006 |title=Women Deliver 2010: Women and Power |access-date=15 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207004152/http://laffsociety.org/blog/?m=201006 |archive-date=2010-12-07 |url-status=dead }} From 2003 to 2009, she was a professor at Marymount Manhattan College where she taught economics and international studies Targeted News Service (18 February 2009) New! MMC's Radhika Balakrishnan to Present Report on Macro Economics and Human Rights Factiva Document TARGNS0020090219e52i000xk In September 2009, she joined Rutgers University as a professor of Women's and Gender Studies and the executive director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership,{{cite web |url=http://www.cesr.org/article.php?id=398 |title=Experts Comment on Rights in Times of Economic Crisis |access-date=13 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206123015/http://www.cesr.org/article.php?id=398 |archive-date=2010-12-06 |url-status=dead }} where she focused on issues of economics and social justice from a feminist perspective as they relate to macroeconomic policy, especially in health and education. Balakrishnan now serves as the faculty director of the Center.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/about-110/radhika-balakrishnan-faculty-director|title=Radhika Balakrishnan, Faculty Director|last=Anastasia|first=Alex|website=www.cwgl.rutgers.edu|access-date=2016-06-01}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205215736/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53766 "More Women Peacekeepers Is Not the Solution" Cléo Fatoorehchi interviews RADHIKA BALAKRISHNAN of the Centre for Women's Global Leadership]. Inter Press Service, December 2010.{{cite web |url=http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53766 |title="More Women Peacekeepers Is Not the Solution" Cléo Fatoorehchi interviews RADHIKA BALAKRISHNAN of the Centre for Women's Global Leadership |access-date=13 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205215736/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53766 |archive-date=2010-12-05 |url-status=dead }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205211945/http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/what-we-do/the-issues/analysis/1842-16-days-of-activism-spotlight-on-militarism- 16 Days of Activism: Spotlight on Militarism]. Global Fund for Women, November 2010.{{cite web |url=http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/what-we-do/the-issues/analysis/1842-16-days-of-activism-spotlight-on-militarism- |title=16 Days of Activism: Spotlight on Militarism |access-date=13 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205211945/http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/what-we-do/the-issues/analysis/1842-16-days-of-activism-spotlight-on-militarism- |archive-date=2010-12-05 |url-status=dead }}
• [http://lawanddisorder.org/2010/04/law-and-disorder-april-19-2010/ Interview with Radika Balakrishnan on Huffington Post Article Why Human Rights are Indispensable to Financial Regulation]. Law and Order Radio, Pacific Radio, April 2010.
• [http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?page=article_s&id_article=1747 NGLS Interviews Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership]. UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN NGLS), January 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?page=article_s&id_article=1747 |title=NGLS Interviews Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership |access-date=13 December 2010}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101206123015/http://www.cesr.org/article.php?id=398 Experts Comment on Rights in Times of Economic Crisis]. Center for Economic and Social Rights, November 2009.

Balakrishnan's primary research interests are gender and development, human rights and the global economy, and human rights and economic social rights.{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/about-110/radhika-balakrishnan-faculty-director|title=Radhika Balakrishnan, Faculty Director|publisher=The Center for Women's Global Leadership}}

Her publications include:{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/about-110/radhika-balakrishnan-faculty-director|title=Radhika Balakrishnan, Faculty Director|publisher=The Center for Women's Global Leadership|access-date=27 September 2010}}

• {{cite book | last = Balakrishnan | first = Radhika | title = Why MES with human rights?: Integrating macro economic strategies with human rights | publisher = Marymount Manhattan College | location = New York | year = 2005 | oclc = 821054967 }}
• {{cite book | editor-last = Balakrishnan | editor-first = Radhika | title = The hidden assembly line: gender dynamics of subcontracted work in a global economy | publisher = Kumarian Press | location = Bloomfield, Connecticut | year = 2002 | isbn = 9781565491403 }}
• {{cite book | editor-last1 = Balakrishnan | editor-first1 = Radhika | editor-last2 = Jung | editor-first2 = Patricia | editor-last3 = Hunt | editor-first3 = Mary | editor-link3 = Mary E. Hunt | title = Good sex: feminist perspectives from the world's religions | publisher = Rutgers University Press | location = New Brunswick, New Jersey | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780813528847 }}

• {{Cite journal | last1 = Balakrishnan | first1 = Radhika | last2 = Heintz | first2 = James | title = Corporate control of our democracy: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission | journal = The Huffington Post | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radhika-balakrishnan/corporate-control-of-our_b_643095.html | date = July 2010 }}
• {{Cite journal | last1 = Balakrishnan | first1 = Radhika | last2 = Heintz | first2 = James | title = Making the International Monetary Fund accountable to human rights | journal = The Huffington Post | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radhika-balakrishnan/making-the-international_b_549976.html | date = April 2010 }}
• {{Cite journal | last1 = Balakrishnan | first1 = Radhika | last2 = Elson | first2 = Diane | last3 = Patel | first3 = Raj | author-link2 = Diane Elson | author-link3 = Raj Patel | title = Rethinking macro economic strategies from a human rights perspective | journal = Development | volume = 53 | issue = 1 | pages = 27–36 | doi = 10.1057/dev.2009.83 | date = March 2010 | s2cid = 86077721 }}
• {{Cite journal | last1 = Balakrishnan | first1 = Radhika | last2 = Heintz | first2 = James | title = Why human rights are indispensable to financial regulation | journal = The Huffington Post | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radhika-balakrishnan/why-human-rights-are-indi_b_517128.html | date = March 2010 }}
• {{Cite journal | last1 = Balakrishnan | first1 = Radhika | last2 = Elson | first2 = Diane | author-link2 = Diane Elson | title = Auditing economic policy in the light of obligations on economic and social rights | journal = Essex Human Rights Review | volume = 5 | issue = 1 | url = http://projects.essex.ac.uk/ehrr/V5N1/ElsonBalakrishnan.pdf | date = July 2008 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Balakrishnan | first = Radhika | title = Exploring collaborations: heterodox economics and economic social rights framework | journal = Feminist Economics | volume = 13 | issue = 1 | pages = 87–116 | doi = 10.1080/13545700601086838 | date = January 2007 | s2cid = 153719183 }}
• Balakrishnan, Radhika; Sayeed, Asad (2004), "[https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523968_5 Why do firms disintegrate? Towards an understanding of the firm-level decision to subcontract and its implication for labor]", in {{Cite book | editor-last1 = Milberg | editor-first1 = William | title = Labor and the globalization of production: causes and consequences of industrial upgrading | pages = 104–118 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = Houndmills New York, N.Y | year = 2004 | isbn = 9781403935021 }}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://cms.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9637 From Classrooms to Centre Stage: A Professor Who Speaks for Women]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205215736/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53766 "More Women Peacekeepers Is Not the Solution" Cléo Fatoorehchi interviews RADHIKA BALAKRISHNAN of the Centre for Women's Global Leadership]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205211945/http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/what-we-do/the-issues/analysis/1842-16-days-of-activism-spotlight-on-militarism- 16 Days of Activism: Spotlight on Militarism]
• [http://lawanddisorder.org/2010/04/law-and-disorder-april-19-2010/ Interview with Radika Balakrishnan on Huffington Post Article Why Human Rights are Indispensable to Financial Regulation]
• [http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?page=article_s&id_article=1747 NGLS Interviews Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101119001439/http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/staff.html#Radhika%20Balakrishnan Radhika Balakrishnan's Biography on the CWGL Website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100701215013/http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/radhika/Balakrishnan%20Publications.pdf Radhika Balakrishnan's Publications]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100701231615/http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/radhika/articles.html Radhika Balakrishnan's Articles, Statements, and Interviews]

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