Melissa Langworthy

Melissa Langworthy, PhD, is a feminist economist specializing in sustainable development, gender equality, and economic justice. She is Research Director for Includovate, a global development research firm, and a Senior Gender Expert for Equinoccio, an implementing partner of the European Commission. She has 20 years of experience working with multilateral, bilateral, and national institutions to promote inclusive development, including for UN ESCAP, UN Women and Oxfam. Her research, which has been published in top journals including New Political Economy, Gender Work and Organization, and the Journal of Economic Issues, focuses on women’s economic and entrepreneurial lives and the institutional structures that shape them.