Professor Naila Kabeer is a Professorial Fellow at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University.
Professor Kabeer is Emeritus Professor of Gender and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Faculty Associate of LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, and Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. A leading scholar of gender and development, her research focuses on gender, poverty, social exclusion, labor markets and livelihoods, social protection, citizenship, and women’s agency, with a particular focus on South and Southeast Asia.
Professor Kabeer has a long-standing engagement with Bangladesh and has undertaken research, advisory and policy work with international organizations and development agencies including the World Bank, UNDP, UN Women, IDRC and DFID, as well as NGOs including BRAC, Oxfam, ActionAid, Nijera Kori, and Pradan. She has published extensively on gender, poverty and development, and is the author of several influential books, most recently Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox (2024), which explores the changing nature of gender relations and women’s agency in Bangladesh. The book is available as an open-access publication.
As a Professorial Fellow at BIGD, Professor Kabeer contributes to the Institute’s research, intellectual exchange and engagement on gender, poverty, inequality and inclusive development.
