Elaine Zuckerman
Elaine Zuckerman is Advisor to BRICS Feminist Watch; President of Gender Action, an advocacy campaign to hold International Financial Institutions (IFIs) accountable on their promises to promote gender equality and empower women; Chair of the Haiti Advocacy Working Group Gender and Human Rights Task Force; and Co-Chair of Promundo, the leading global organization engaging men in ending sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and participating fully in care activities.
In 1980 Elaine joined the World Bank as a project economist on China. Witnessing the unfolding of structural adjustment loans (SALs) during the 1980s, in 1987 she created the Bank's first program to end SALs' harmful impacts on the poor, especially on women. In the late 1990s she worked in the World Bank's gender unit where she analyzed the gender impacts of Bank investments around the world across sectors.