Join Women, Business and the Law Manager Tea Trumbic and SIPA alumnae Alexis Cheney ‘22 and Nayantara Vohra ’21 to discuss the main findings of the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2024 Report and the report production process. This year's report, the 10th in the series, finds that women worldwide enjoy less than two-thirds of the legal rights that men do, and that the weak implementation of laws exacerbates gender gaps. For the first time, the report analyzes not only the pace of legal reforms to create equal economic opportunity for women, but also countries’ efforts to implement those laws. The report finds a shocking implementation gap in all 190 economies measured.
This event is cosponsored by the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia SIPA and the Economic and Political Development Concentration and the Gender and Public Policy Specialization at Columbia SIPA.
Speakers:
Tea Trumbic is the Manager of the Women, Business and the Law project in the World Bank’s Development Economics vice-presidency, where she leads a dynamic team to produce data and analysis on laws and regulations that impact women’s economic opportunities in 190 economies. She joined the World Bank in 2006, and has worked on production of indicators related to business taxation, credit information, agribusiness, trade and gender. Before joining the World Bank, Tea worked at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia and the International Monetary Fund. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University and a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
Nayantara Vohra is an Analyst of the Women, Business and the Law project. She conducts research on violence against women and WBL’s new Safety Indicator. She also supports the Contributor Management team. Nayantara joined the team in June 2021. Before joining the team, she practiced law in India for over four years. She worked for the World Bank’s Data and Evidence for Judicial Reform (DE JURE) program. She holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Delhi, India.
Alexis Cheney is an Analyst on the Women, Business and the Law project. She supports the legal implementation team and research dissemination team. Alexis joined the project in June 2021. Before joining the team, she worked as a Paralegal at the U.S. Department of Justice and as a communications consultant for the OECD in Paris, France. She holds a double Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University and Sciences Po. She speaks French.
Moderators:
Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy and Senior Lecturer in Discipline in International and Public Affairs
Eugenia McGill, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs and Co-Director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration at Columbia SIPA
About the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia SIPA
The Institute of Global Politics (IGP) convenes leading scholars and practitioners to advance policy solutions to today’s pressing global challenges. IGP brings together experts—from the public and private sectors and across the political spectrum—to foster civil discourse and create evidence-based policy strategies for local to global impact.
About the Economic and Political Development Concentration at Columbia SIPA
The Economic and Political Development (EPD) concentration equips students with a broad understanding of the processes of economic, political, and social change in the developing world, as well as a more focused competence in specific fields, such as financial inclusion, small business and social enterprise development, corporate social responsibility, gender and development, education or health policy, sustainable development, and post-conflict reconstruction and governance.
About the Gender and Public Policy Specialization at Columbia SIPA
The Gender and Public Policy specialization (GPPS) enables students to develop skills to assess, formulate, and implement policies that promote gender equality. Precisely because gender is such an important dimension of all public policy, and because the promotion of gender equality depends on the commitment of professionals in all fields, the specialization is of interest to students in all concentrations.
About Women, Business and the Law:
Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a World Bank Group project collecting data on the laws and policy mechanisms that measure the enabling environment for women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The data and analysis highlight the work still to be done to ensure economic empowerment for all. All previous reports are available for download on the Reports page. WBL invites students, alumni, faculty and staff with knowledge of laws and policies impacting women’s economic empowerment to contribute their expertise to WBL’s research by signing up here.
