Sara Cantillon

User profile

Professor

Sara

Cantillon

United Kingdom

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

#equalpolicies, #eugenderequalitystrategy

About you (please use English): 

I am Professor of Economics at the GCU and Director of the WiSE Centre for Economic Justice. Previously, I was Head of the School of Social Justice and Director of the Equality Studies Centre in University College Dublin. My main areas of research are equality, care, poverty, gender and intrahousehold distribution. I have extensive research and policy experience, both nationally and internationally having worked as an Economic Advisor to the Department of the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister): Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI): Visiting Professor at the World Bank, Senshu University, Tokyo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Marie Curie Senior Fellow at the University of Warwick and at Kyoto University, Japan. I am currently the National Expert (Ireland) on the EC DG Reform Gender Minstreaming Flagship project 2022-2024 and was was the National Expert on the EU Commission’s Network of Experts in the Field of Socio-Economic Discrimination; Advisor to the Scottish Government Gender Index Working Group; President Elect of IAFFE and Series Editor (with Professor Diane Elson), The Gendered Economy, Agenda: Columbia University Press. Sara is currently a resident expert with the UN Global Crisis Bureau and an international gender consultant with UN Women.

Scientific discipline: 

Social sciences, Interdisciplinary

Stakeholder group: 

Policy stakeholders, Gender equality stakeholders

Contact details

Spoken languages: 

English

City: 

Glasgow

Street: 

Cowcadens Road

ZIP: 

G128DX

Phone: 

+44868609078

Social networks: 

https://www.genderportal.eu/LinkedIn

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Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender in economics

Country coverage: 

Europe/USA

Skills and track record: 

2015 – present, Professor of Economics and Gender, Director of Wise Centre for Economic Justice, Glasgow School of Business for Society 1998 – 2015 School of Social Justice UCD, Belfield Dublin • Head, School of Social Justice, 2005-2008 • Director Graduate Studies 2008-2015 • Director, Equality Studies Centre, 2000-2004 • Assistant professor 1998-2002; Associate Professor 2002 1994-1998 Economic and Social Policy Advisor, Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Government Buildings, Dublin 1991-1994 Research Officer, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin 1991-1994 1989-1991 Consultant, Tax Economics Group, Price Waterhouse, Washington DC 1989-1991 1987-1989 Regional Correspondent, The Japan Times, Tokyo 1987-1989 1986-1987 Precious Metals Trader, Mitsui (USA) Inc, New York 1986-1987 ACADEMIC FELLOW/VISITING PROFESSOR Visiting Professor, Doshisha University, Graduate School of Global Studies, Kyoto Fall 2022 Visiting Professor, Senshu University, Department of Law and Economics, Tokyo, Spring 2019 Invited Expert, International Summer School, Beijing University for Foreign Studies, July-August 2018 Helen J Sheridan Memorial Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Fall Residency 2016 Visiting Professor, Social Thought and Politcal Economy Program, University of Massachusetts (Amherst) January-June 2014 Heinrich Boll Stifing Fellow, GEM-IWG Knowledge Networking Program on Engendering Economics, Jagiellonian University, Poland, July 7-10, 2013 Marie Curie Senior Fellow, University of Warwick, Spring 2009 Visiting Professor, Department of Law and Economics, Senshu University, Tokyo, Autumn 2002 Visiting Research Professor, Economic Development Institute, World Bank, Washington DC, April – October 1997 Monbusho Scholar, Hiroshima University, Japan 1987-1989 EXPERT APPOINTMENTS Irish Gender Expert, EU DG Reform Gender Flagship Project on Gender Mainstreaming and Public Policy 2022-2024 Scottish Government Gender Index Working Group 2018-2022 IAFFE Elected President IAFFE 2023-2026; Board of Directors, 2016-2019; Publications Committee 2020-2023 Series Editor (with Professor Diane Elson), The Gendered Economy, Agenda:Columbia Univeristy Press 2017- Present Scottish Government Expert Review Group on Carer’s Benefit 2016 -2017 Awarding Committee Rhond Williams Prize in Economics, 2016 - 2018 Appointed by Irish Minister of Education to Expert Group on The Future Funding of Higher Education 2014-2016 Elected to Editorial Board, Review of Radical Political Economics, 2014-2017; 2017 – 2020; 2020- 2023 External Examiner, Fernand Braudel IFER Fellowships, Foundation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris 2013 Irish National Expert, EU Network of Experts on Socio-Economic Discrimination, 2009 – 2013 Economics Advisory Council, Amnesty International, 2007-2009 Civil Service Commission Appointments Board 2007 Board of Directors, Africa Self Help Development Organisation, 2000 - 2005 National Women’s Council Millennium Poverty and Social Exclusion Advisory Group 1999 Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) representative on the Association of European Economic Institutes (AIECE) 1992-1995