Dr. Ewa Ruminska-Zimny

Economist, PhD from the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland)
Current position: Lecturer at the Polish Academy of Science, Gender Studies
President, International Forum of Women in Science and Business at the Warsaw School of Economics and Board Member of the Congress of Polish Women
Member, Experts’ Forum of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
Research and teaching at the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland); visiting professor at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (US). Work experience at the United Nations in New York as senior economist at the Human Development Report Office and in Geneva as Gender Focal Point and Head, Gender and Economy programme at the at the UN Economic Commission for Europe responsible for regional reviews of the Beijing Platform for Action (2000-2009). Author of reports and publications including 2009 Gender Gap and Economic Policy www.unece.org/pub). Expert for international organizations: UN (Regional Beijing +15 Review, 2014 Geneva), European Parliament (Hearings on Regional Development, Brussels 2011 and 2014); European Commission (DG Justice, Brussels 2011; COCOF/EDF, Brussels 2012) and the Council of Europe (Gender budgets, Athens 2009; Ministerial Conference, Baku 2010).