Shalini Randeria

Shalini Randeria is an American-born Indian anthropologist specializing in European colonialism and its aftermath.

Education She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1955, and brought up in Mumbai and New Delhi, and earned her PhD at the Free University of Berlin.

Career She is tenured as a professor of anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland and appointed as the rector of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna, Austria. She is also the director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, a research centre affiliated to the Graduate Institute.

Considered as an expert on democracies,

In November 2024, Randeria resigned as a rector before the end of her term.