Rockflower is delighted to welcome Tanushree Kaushal to the Board of Directors.
Tanushree Kaushal is a doctoral researcher at the Gender Centre and Centre for Finance and Development at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She is currently a visiting research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on intersections of gender, state policies and finance, particularly the effects and challenges around extension of financial services to women borrowers and marginalized populations. Her research project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and bridges political anthropology, feminist political theory and international relations. She has experience in teaching graduate-level coursework on gender studies and contemporary finance and has been a research contributor to projects on financialisation of the pharma sector with the Global Health Centre, Geneva and a researcher for the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
She has previously worked as a consultant for feminist organizations such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Geneva on gender and political economy in Cameroon and West Africa, and has experience working with both government and non-government organizations working on gender and legal protection in India and the Netherlands. She has been an advisor to the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women and girls and her research has been published in journals such as the Review of International Political Economy, International Development Policy and Asian Labour Review.
“Tanushree is the rare example of when a brilliant, academic mind combines with a practical knowledge of exactly what is required to get money to where it is needed most: into the hands of women and girls whose lives are hampered by lack of access and availability. I could not be more delighted to welcome Tanushree to the Rockflower family, knowing that she will bring her particular blend of careful, measured insight with a willingness to seek radical transformative change for our partners.” Tine Ward, Founder and CEO, Rockflower Partners Inc.
"In a deeply unequal world with severe challenges of access and distribution of resources, I see Rockflower as an example of deliberative, intentional and feminist work that orients resources in directions where they are needed and involves partners in collective, equitable decision-making. I’m thrilled to join Rockflower and learn from its ethic of creating sustainable linkages between different levels of practices and thinking." Tanushree Kaushal