Shirin M. Rai

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Full Name	Shirin M. Rai
Date Of Birth	Dec 1, 1960(1960-12-01)
Age	64
Birthplace	New Delhi
Country	India
Birth City	Delhi
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Shirin M. Rai Biography

Shirin M. Rai is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on December 1, 1960 in New Delhi, Delhi, India.

Shirin M. Rai was born in India and attended Modern School in New Delhi. She went on to study political science at Hindu College graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts and then attended Delhi University, where she earned a master’s in political science in 1984. She then went to University of Cambridge earning a Ph.D in 1989. Between 1984–85 she was a temporary lecturer at the University of Delhi, then moving onto the University of Warwick (1989) where she currently holds the post of professor of politics and international studies.

Rai’s work on a gendered analysis of the processes of democratisation, and in particular women’s access to political and national and local development institutions, has contributed enormously to the debates in the field. In 2000 she edited International Perspectives on Gender and Democratization, which was one of the first books in this area. In this book Rai raised important questions about the nature of the third wave of democratisation and its complex effect on gender relations in the developing work. A distinctive framing of democratisation in her work concerns not only new but consolidated democracies such as India; Rai suggests that engendering state institutions in these countries forms part of the democratisation process and should not be overlooked. Her work on women MPs in the Indian parliament, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, remains one of the only studies of its kind and has led to Rai working with United Nations organisations such as UNDP, Division for Women’s Advancement, Department for Economic and Social Affairs and Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance for consultancy work, and public speaking engagements. She also published a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report: Achieving Gender Equality in Public Offices in Pakistan.

Shirin M. Rai Net Worth

Shirin M. Rai is one of the richest Academic from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shirin M. Rai 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shirin M. Rai (born 1 December 1960), is a political scientist, known for her research on the intersections between globalisation, post-colonial governance, processes of democratisation and gender regimes. She is the Director of the Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament Programme, a four-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Leverhulme Trust that studies the performances of ritual, ceremony, symbolism and affect in the British, Indian and South African parliaments.

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In 2010 she guest-edited (with Kate Bedford) a special issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, published by the University of Chicago Press. The theme of the special issue was Feminists Theorize the International Political Economy. In her work Rai addressed two fundamental challenges before gender theory and practice:

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Addressing these questions from a postcolonial perspective in the context of globalisation, Rai’s work continues to insist on keeping in focus the politics of gender equality as well as the dialectic of agency and structure in reproducing as well as challenging dominant social structures.

Top Facts about Shirin M. Rai

1. Shirin M. Rai is an Indian political scientist born in 1960.
2. She is a professor of politics and international studies at Warwick University.
3. Rai’s research focuses on gender, governance, and development in South Asia.
4. She has authored several books including “Gender and the Political Economy of Development” (2018).
5. Rai has served as the editor-in-chief of the journal “Feminist Review”.
6. She was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri award by the Government of India in 2021.
7. Rai has also been recognized with numerous other awards for her contributions to academia.
8. Her work has been widely cited and she is considered a leading scholar in her field.
9. Rai holds a PhD from Cambridge University and has taught at several universities around the world.
10. She is actively involved in promoting women’s rights and gender equality globally.