Professor Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at Manchester University and was previously Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her books include the award-winning A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, and Gender and Green Governance. In 2008, she received a Padma Shri from the President of India, and in 2010 the Leontief Prize from Tufts University “for broadening the frontiers of economic thought”.