Dr Leonora Risse is an economist with specialist expertise in understanding gender equality in the workforce. She is a a Research Fellow with the Women's Leadership Institute Australia, and a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University, and is currently appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Economics at RMIT University. She currently serves as the National Chair of the Women in Economics Network.
Leonora was awarded her PhD in Economics from the University of Queensland and served as a Senior Research Economist for the Australian Productivity Commission.
Her research focuses on understanding gender differentials in the workforce and what works to close these gender gaps. Her research experience expands to wellbeing and disadvantage, labour economics, demographic economics, and the use of psychology in economic analysis and policy.
She engages regularly with government and industry on gender equality issues and applying a gender lens to economic analysis and policy design. She was named by Apolitical among the 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2020 globally.
Leonora has also contributed to various initiatives to broaden students' awareness about the practical usefulness of economics, and to foster a greater diversity and inclusion within the next generation of economics students.
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