Gita Sen is DAWN's research coordinator on the Political Economy of Globalisation, and a professor of public policy at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. She has been for many years a feminist analyst, activist and advocate on globalisation, and on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Well known as the author of many publications on these subjects and on gender and development more generally, she has also been a key advocate in global and regional arenas linked to both the International Conference on Population and Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women. She is on many national and international committees and is co-coordinator of the knowledge network on Women and Gender Equity for the WHO's Independent Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. One of the her best known books is the first DAWN book, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives.