Sustainable Development, Care and Climate Adaptation Finance

Speaker: Caren Grown, Senior Fellow, The Bookings Institution
Time:07 October 2025
Location: Zoom

Bio: Caren Grown is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is an internationally recognized expert on gender issues in development. She served as global director for gender at the World Bank Group. Prior to joining the World Bank, she was economist-in-residence and co-director of the Program on Gender at American University. Over the course of her career, Grown held several senior positions, including senior gender advisor at the USAID where she led the development of its gender equality policy, senior scholar and co-director of the gender equality and the economy program at Bard College, and director of the poverty reduction and economic governance team at the International Center for Research on Women. She is the author of several important books. She is a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in economics from the New School for Social Research and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. At the Brookings Institution, she is focusing on climate change and development through a gender lens, fiscal policy and public finance for gender equality, and new institutional approaches to achieve gender equality and sustainable development.