Bio

Claire Slatter from Fiji is an Executive Committee member and a founding member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). She is a feminist scholar with a background in anti-nuclear, anti-colonial, feminist, trade union and social justice activism. She has an M.A from the Australian National University and a PhD from Massey University and has taught politics at the University of the South Pacific for more than 20 years. Claire has undertaken consultancies with several international development agencies including UNIFEM (now UN Women), UNDP, WHO, Oxfam New Zealand, the New Zealand Law Commission, and the International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) on gender issues, development, neoliberal reforms, inequality and women's economic rights.