Tanushree Kaushal

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.