Martha Chen is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, an Affiliated Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and cofounder, International Coordinator Emeritus and Senior Advisor of the global research-policyaction network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). An experienced development practitioner and scholar, her areas of specialization are employment, gender, and poverty with a focus on the working poor in the informal economy. Before joining Harvard in 1987, she had two decades of resident experience in Bangladesh working with BRAC (now the world’s largest non-governmental organization) and in India, where she served as field representative of Oxfam America for India and Bangladesh. Marty received a PhD in South Asia Regional Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author and editor of numerous books including The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future (co-edited with Francoise Carre), Bridging Perspectives: Labour, Informal Employment, and Poverty (coedited with Namrata Bali and Ravi Kanbur), The Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty (co-authored with Joann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz, Renana Jhabvala and Chris Bonner), Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction (co-authored with Marilyn Carr and Joann Vanek), Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture (co-authored with Joann Vanek and others). Dr. Chen was awarded a high civilian award, the Padma Shri, by the Government of India in April 2011; and a Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War award by the Government of Bangladesh in December 2012.

Programas y seminarios destacados

  • Harvard Course in Law and Economics

    Fecha de inicio: 02/10/2023

    El objetivo de este programa es ofrecer una visión actualizada de algunas de las cuestiones relevantes en el ámbito del análisis económico del derecho.

  • Curso online La competencia en los mercados

    Fecha de inicio: Abierto

    Introducción a los elementos esenciales que configuran la política de competencia y debate en torno a los principios e instrumentos de la política de competencia.

  • Curso online El liberalismo, una filosofía en peligro

    Fecha de inicio: Abierto

    ¿Por qué son tantos los obstáculos con que se enfrenta el liberalismo, tan implacables los enemigos con los que ha de batallar y tan blandos los aliados con que a duras penas cuenta?

  • Ética de la Inteligencia Artificial. Carissa Véliz

    Fecha de inicio: Próximamente

    Este curso nos ayudará a comprender la "realidad digital" que vivimos. Un enfoque práctico y constructivo, ofreciendo posibles soluciones a los desafíos éticos generados por la IA.