Nilanjana Sengupta is a Technical Specialist with the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) with fifteen years of experience of working on issues of livelihoods, poverty, economic empowerment, financial inclusion and violence through a gender intersectional lens. An economist by training, her specific focal areas have been labour, livelihoods, microfinance and governance.
Previously, she has worked with UN Women and also taught at premier Indian Universities such as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Jadavpur University. She has regularly published in journals on gender and development, and her recent book Domestic Days: Women, Work and Politics in Kolkata has been published by the Oxford University Press.