Prof. Ayesha Banu, PhD

Project Director – Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion in Bangladesh (GGiFI) Project, Centre for Research and Development (CRD), and Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka

Professor Banu was awarded a PhD degree on Bangladesh's Women’s Movement from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2015. She received her first Masters in Sociology (1987) from the University of Dhaka, while her second master’s as a Commonwealth scholar (1993–94)  was from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK. She started her career as a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in 1989. Her research interests include feminism and women’s movements, methodological issues, gender and development, poverty and livelihoods, religion, body, sexuality, and inclusion.