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Dr. Suneha Seetahul is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work, University of Sydney. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Bordeaux School of Economics and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Sydney's Department of Political Economy and Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on gender, labour markets, health, and social protection, with a methodological emphasis on quasi-experimental econometrics and machine learning. She has collaborated with organizations including the World Bank, DFAT, and the Office for Women.
Education: PhD in Economics (Bordeaux School of Economics), Postdoctoral Fellowships at University of Sydney and ANU.
Research interests include development economics, gender norms, climate change impacts, and social protection policies. Recent projects include the Working for Women 2025-2030 initiative (AUD 5M) and Future of Work Gender Inequality study (ARC Discovery Grant AUD 280K).
Key awards include the prestigious World Bank Africa Fellowship (2021, 1% success rate). Teaching roles include coordinating courses on development policy and human rights at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Grants and projects span AUD 5.28M total funding, including collaborations with Sydney Nano and Afrobarometer. Her work bridges academic research with policy impact, addressing issues like workplace harassment in retail and climate resilience in African nations.
