Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Canada Research Chair Tier 2 of Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy and Associate Professor of Global Development at UTSC and she is cross-appointed to the graduate programme of Political Science, University of Toronto. Hossein is the interim-Director of the Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods at the University of Toronto and founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE) Collective. Hossein’s research navigates solidarity economies–a movement started in the Global South–which prioritizes social profitability over financial gain. She also holds an Ontario Early Researcher Award (2018-2026) and previously the IDG SSHRC (2017-2020). Hossein is a board member to the International Association of Feminist Economics, advisor to Oxford University Press, editorial board member to the U.N. Task Force for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Kerala University’s Journal ‘Polity & Society’. Hossein is the author of multi-award winning book ‘Politicized Microfinance’ (2016), co-author of ‘Critical Introduction to Business and Society’ (2017); editor of ‘The Black Social Economy’ (2018), co-editor of ‘Community Economies in the Global South’ (2022) and ‘Beyond Racial Capitalism: Cooperatives in the African Diaspora’ (2023) both by Oxford University Press. Her forthcoming books are ‘Africana Feminist Economics’ by Cambridge University Press and ‘The Banker Ladies’ by the University of Toronto Press. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for more than 16 years in a number of global organizations in economic development.

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