Dr. Klatzer is the fourth lecturer in the 2018 lecture series

19 February 2018
Dr. Klatzer is the fourth lecturer in the 2018 lecture series

Dr. Elisabeth Klatzer is the fourth lecturer in the 2018 RIKK & UNU-GEST lecture series during spring term 2018. Dr. Klatzer is a specialist and civil-society activist on feminist economics and gender responsive budgeting. Her lecture is titled “Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Tax Justice and Gender Equality”.

In her lecture Dr. Klatzer will reflect upon the progress and challenges in implementing gender responsive budgeting, an approach with high potential for public budgeting to focus on women’s and human rights obligations. Furthermore, the lecture will address on the work on human rights obligations in the context of public finance. With a focus on public revenue, the available fiscal space, some propositions on making progress by focusing on tax justice for gender equality will be discussed. 

Dr. Klatzer holds a PhD in political economics from Vienna University of Economics in Austria and a Master in public administration from Harvard University. She has published extensively on the issues of feminist economics, economic policy and in particular on gender responsive budgeting. Most recently, she is the co-editor – with Prof. Angela O’Hagan – of the volume “Gender Budgeting in Europe. Developments and Progress”, to be published at Palgrave MacMillan in March this year.

The event takes place on Thursday, 22nd of February, from 12:00-13:00, in the National Museum’s lecture hall. The lecture is open to the public, free of charge and in English. You can find more information about the lecture on our Facebook page.