Shahra Razavi

Shahra Razavi (Shahrashoub Razavi) is an Iranian-born academic and senior United Nations official specialising in gender and social development. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Oxford University, Razavi is currently Director of the Social Protection Department of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.

Biography Razavi obtained a Bachelor of Science from the London School of Economics.

From 1993 to 2013, Razavi was Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Razavi praised the 2012 World Development Report's proposed microeconomic reforms to tackle economic gender inequality, but criticised the report for not addressing the ways in which macroeconomic policies disadvantaged women, who make up a majority of smallholders. As a guest contributor, Razavi presented the sociological and economic analysis of the caretaker role of women on the journal of the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research in Japan. This evaluated and lead to further discussion on the family-centered Care Diamond social welfare scheme the Japanese government pioneers among countries with larger aged population of baby-boomers and declining birthrates. In 2012, Ravazi went to the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICGS), the University of Bern, as a visiting professor to also work with Brigitte Schnegg, a Swiss feminist historian and the founder of the centre.

Positions at the United Nations In June 2013, Razavi was appointed as the Chief of Research and Data at UN Women. UN Women and its flagship report, Progress of the World's Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World Razavi's research has also explored issues such as unpaid labor and the economic burden placed on women internationally. The debate on SDGs would continue in Ravazi's article in Global Policy

Razavi is on the editorial/advisory boards of the following journals: Feminist Economics (Associate Editors), Global Social Policy (International Advisory Board) and Journal of Peasant Studies (International Advisory Board).

Publications

Towards achieving SDGs.

. The Beijing Plus 10 Review Process.

A part of the UNRISD's contribution to the Beijing Plus 5 Review Process.