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Alma Espino

  • Professor, Universidad de la República Uruguay

Alma is a feminist economist whose research focuses on employment, non-market work, development and care economics. From 1985 to 2013, she worked as a Senior-Researcher for the Institute of Economics of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Administration at University (FECA) of the Republic, Uruguay.

Currently, she teaches Economics and Gender at FECA and participates as a lecturer in the Graduated course on Gender and Public Policies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is also has been a lecturer in the Regional Training Program on Gender and Public Policies (PRIGEPP-FLACSO) since 2003 in addition to being a fellow of the Latin American Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics since 2006.

Alma is Department Coordinator of the Development and Gender Area group at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Development Studies-Uruguay. While there, she has developed wide, research based advocacy activities on gender economics. As a result, she has conducted lectures and training-courses for NGOs and political actors in Uruguay and other Latin American countries. She has been working as a consultant on gender issues for the Uruguayan and other regional government and administrative agencies as well as for International Organizations such as World Bank, UNRISD, UNWomen, IDB, ECLAC, UNDP, and ILO.

She is a member of the International Gender and Trade Network and of the Latin-American Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG). Alma has also published in several journals and books and has participated in the drafting of several book chapters. She is member of the National System of Researchers- Uruguay.

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Young Scholars Initiative Early Career Days, Second Session

Event Conference | Mar 11–12, 2022

As young scholars we are confronted with many challenges: publishing, teaching, the job market, work-life balance and institutional barriers, often we face these demands alone and without much institutional or even moral support.