Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership; Professor, Women's and Gender Studies;  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dr. Balakrishnan has a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University and is the current Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers.  Previously, she was Professor of Economics and International Studies at Marymount Manhattan College and worked at the Ford Foundation as a program officer in the Asia Regional Program. Dr. Balakrishnan is the author of Why MES with Human Rights: Integrating Macro Economic Strategies with Human Rights (Marymount Manhattan College, New York, 2005), edited The Hidden Assembly Line: Gender Dynamics of Subcontracted Work in a Global Economy (Kumarian Press, 2001) and co-edited Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the Worlds Religions, with Patricia Jung and Mary Hunt (Rutgers University Press, 2000). She has also authored numerous articles appearing in books and journals. Professor Balakrishnan's work focuses on gender and development, gender and the global economy, human rights and economic and social rights. Her research and advocacy work has sought to change the lens through which macroeconomic policy is interpreted and critiqued by applying international human rights norms to assess macroeconomic policy.