Shirin Rai is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University and the Director of Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID). Her work on Feminist International Political Economy has had a far reaching impact. She has many different interests spanning feminist theory, political representation and institutions and recently she has focussed on the role of political performance. Her work has influenced the UN’s Division for the Advancement of Women and the UN Development Programme. She has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the Political Studies Association. She has served on the editorial boards of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies, the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Global Ethics. She served as a member of the governing council of the International Studies Association and the Political Studies Association named its PhD prize after her in 2017, in recognition of her contribution to the discipline.
