Associate Professor Leonora Risse

Leonora is a Research Fellow with the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia and spent time in residence as Harvard University as a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a co-founder of the Women in Economics Network and currently serves as the WEN National Chair. She is currently appointed at the Canberra School of Politics, Economics & Society, University of Canberra. Leonora’s research focuses on gender equality in workforce outcomes and identifying evidence-based policies to close gender gaps, and has a particular interest in the use of psychology in economic analysis and policy.

Focus areas:

• wellbeing and disadvantage
• labour economics
• demographic economics
• education