Dr Leonora Risse
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Senior Lecturer in Economics
COBL | School of Economics, Finance and Marketing
Email: leonora.risse@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 40136 0733
Campus: Melbourne City
COBL | School of Economics, Finance and Marketing
Email: leonora.risse@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 40136 0733
Campus: Melbourne City
Leonora is a Research Fellow with the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia and spent time in residence as Harvard University as a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Leonora is a co-founder of the Women in Economics Network and currently serves as the WEN National Chair.
She is currently appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Economics at RMIT University.
Leonora previously served as Senior Research Economist for the Australian Government Productivity Commission.
Leonora is a co-founder of the Women in Economics Network in Australia. She currently serves as a member of the Central Council of Economic Society of Australia and the National Economic Panel of Economists.
She engages regularly with governments, industry and community groups to advise on how to apply a gender lens to economic analysis and policymaking, and how to design gender equitable policy.
Leonora's research focuses on gender equality in workforce outcomes and identifying evidence-based policies to close gender gaps. Her research experience expands to wellbeing and disadvantage, labour economics, demographic economics, education, and the use of psychology in economic analysis and policy.
Economics, Gender, Labour Markets, Equality
Publications
Projects
Awards
Oxford Economic Papers. 70(4): 919-949
(Oxford Economics Papers Editor’s Choice and one of 5 'Most Read’ articles)
Risse, L., Farrell, L. & Fry, T.R.L. (2018).
Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 23(1): 43-78
Risse, L. (2020).
Journal of Economic Psychology, 53: 85-99
Farrell, L., Fry, T.R.L. and Risse, L. (2016).
Funded by the Trawalla Foundation and supported by the Women's Leadership Institute Australia
2021
Award date: 2021
Recipients: Leonora Risse
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.