Kade Finnoff

Biography

Kade Finnoff is a development economist whose work primarily focuses on countries emerging from violent conflict. In particular, her work looks at the way in which the reconstitution of society is exclusionary or inclusive of marginalized groups such as, female headed households, children and people with disabilities. She has spent a number of years working on issues of inequality and violence, in particular sexual violence, in countries in Central Africa and more recently in India. Kade has also worked on economic integration of people with disabilities with various local and international NGO's in South Asia, Central America and Africa. Kade has also been a technical consultant for UNDP, UNIFEM, and UNWomen on a range of issues from pro-poor macroeconomic policy to gender budgeting of post-conflict development assistance. She has completed her PhD from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her Areas of Interests includes Economic Development, Political Economy of Violent Conflict, Gendered Violence, African Development, Feminist Economics.

Research Interest

Public Finance, Gender Inequities and Post War State-building; Economic Empowerment and Sexual Violence.