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Associate Professor Ann Kayis-Kumar's research conceptualises tax as a mechanism to achieve social justice across the taxpaying spectrum; ranging from improving the integrity of taxing multinationals to improving the wellbeing of financially vulnerable individuals and small businesses.

She is the Founding Director of »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Tax and Business Advisory Clinic, which bridges the gap between grassroots community support and empirical research by supporting people in serious hardship and in turn aggregating client data to identify systemic issues. Ann's current gender-related work focuses on gendered patterns of financial abuse, and the link between financial abuse and family violence, and she regularly engages with government and the media on these issues.

Robert Akerlof is a Professor of Economics at »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Business School. His main areas of research are sociology and economics, organizational economics, and applied microeconomic theory. In his work for the Gender Equality Hub, he brings a keen interest in the power of social narratives and social interactions to drive positive (and negative) social change.

Christine Forster is a Professor who works on gender equality and women's human rights in many areas of women's lives. She teaches two courses on gender and law. Her current research focuses on opportuni-ties for gender equality measures in federal systems, the gendering of damages in compensation systems, and sexual misconduct by legal professionals. Christine also works closely with NGOs in South-East Asia and India, particularly in the area of gender equality and federalism.

Federico Masera is a senior lecturer at the »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Business School, School of Economics. He quantitatively studies how the media and politicians shape attitudes toward marginalized groups, as well as the economic and social effects of exclusionary rhetoric. Currently, he is investigating the impact of the online manosphere, examining its influence on societal attitudes and gender dynamics.

leda Matavelli is a postdoctoral fellow at »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ and an Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI, working at the intersection of gender, cultural and labor economics. In her research, she conducts large-scale field experiments and cross-country surveys to study how adherence to masculinity norms relate to economic outcomes and gender gaps. She also studies the effects of expected discrimination on labor market outcomes, wage transparency policies, and gender gaps in cogni-tive load in the household.

Dr. Angela Kintominas (she/her) is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Angela's areas of expertise include feminist and critical theoretical approaches to gender, work, social reproduction and labour law, welfare states and migration. She has worked on projects across the fields of temporary labour migration, family migration and transnational family life, global care chains and migrant care and domestic work, au pairing, surrogacy, and the platformization of care and domestic work in the gig economy.

Elvira Sojli is an Associate Professor of Finance and Scientia Fellow Alumni in the School of Banking and Finance, the University of New South Wales. Her work focuses on empirical industrial organisation at the firm and market level. She is particularly inter-ested in understanding the role of and determinants of women participation in innovation and in the in-ternational aspect of differences across countries and disciplines. Additional current and past work covers international finance and empirical methods.

Dr. Suzanne Chan-Serafin is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the School of Management and Governance at the »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Business School, »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ.

She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Tulane University. Before entering academia, Suzanne worked as an auditor and accountant for several years, specializing in manufacturing and IT industries and passed the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) examinations. Suzanne's research on moral and diversity issues in the workplace and worker safety training, mediation) has been published, amongst others, in the American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Applied Psychology abd Journal of Business Ethics.

Sarah Walker is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics. Her work explores the role of culture and institutions in shaping economic development and environmental sustainability. Her recent projects focus on the impact of allomaternal care (helping mothers with childcare) on trust and cooperation, how female bargaining power influences early childhood investment, and the ways that racism and patriarchal norms intersect to fuel narratives that justify violence against racial minorities.

Evgenia is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics, »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ Business School. She is a labour economist who studies the determinants of human capital formation, productivity, and labour market outcomes. Her work has examined the motherhood wage gap, gender differences in work-related costs, productivity and human capital accumulation, and gender-based discrimination in the labour market.

Jane Zhang is a Professor of Economics. Her research agenda focuses on how preferences and beliefs are formed, and the role that they play in a wide range of social outcomes. She has a series of projects asking why women tend to avoid competition or under-perform under competitive pressure, what the consequences are, and what can be done. She has also worked on a wide range of projects including the influence of curriculum content on political attitudes, the determinants of participation in the Hong Kong protests, and how to improve the measurement of risk preferences.

Mehera San Roque is an Associate Professor in the School of Law, Society and Criminology whose re-search interests include evidence law and feminist analysis of law. She has a particular interest in cross-disciplinary collaborations, working colleagues in law, forensic science, psychology and medicine. Her current research includes work on gender bias and wrongful convictions, including convictions of mothers and carers for the murder of children. She is a member of the Evidence-Based Forensics Initiative at »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ and on the Council of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Manju Ahuja is Scientia Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management, School of Business. She has previously held faculty positions at the University of Louisville, Kelley School of Business (Indiana University), Florida State University, and Pennsylvania State University. Her publications have appeared in several Financial Times 50 journals and many other outlets. Manju has been ranked among the top 50 researchers in the field of Information Systems worldwide by a variety of sources (e.g., Association of Information Systems ranking of 27th among the researchers publishing in top three journals for the period 2017-2019). She appears on the Stanford University’s list of top 2% scientists in the world.

Manju is Vice-President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Association of Information Systems.  Her awards and honors inclyde Fellow of the Association of Information Systems, Lifetime Achievement AwardÌý´Ú°ù´Ç³¾ÌýAcademy of Management, University of Louisville’s Presidential Distinguished Faculty Award for Research in social sciences, and the Enterprising Women Award by Louisville Business First magazine. She is actively involved in research on issues related to gender, IT workforce, AI Ethics, and Remote/Hybrid work.

Manju has a long-standing research stream on gender, including a pioneering framework on Gender in Information Technology. She has received four National Science Foundation grants totaling over $2,000,000 for her research on Gender and IT workforce issues. Her research has been cited by publications such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Times of India, London School of Economics Business Review, INSEAD Knowledge, Strategy+Business, Computerworld, and others.

Dr Elisabeth Perham is a lecturer in the School of Global and Public Law in the Faculty of Law & Justice. She is the Deputy Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. She teaches into Australian and comparative public and constitutional law courses, and researches primarily in comparative constitutional law with a focus on constitutional law in small states, and constitution making. As part of her broader research in public law, she also has an interest in gender and representation, and has written on that topic in relation to the New Zealand judiciary. She is the Co-Director of the Pathways to Politics Program at »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ, and was part of the establishment of the NSW version of that Program at »Ê¹Ú²ÊƱ in 2021.