Uma Rani

Uma Rani is Senior Economist at the Research Department of the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva and joined the organisation in 2008. Prior to joining the ILO she held the position of Associate Professor at Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India. She has held Visiting Fellow positions at Institute of Developing Economies in Japan; Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in India; ETH-NADEL in Zürich and Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement in Paris. Her research expertise is in the areas of informal economy, minimum wages, poverty and inequality, with a specific focus on gender. Since 2016, she has been working on digital transformations in the world of work, exploring ways to strengthen labour and social institutions to address economic and social inequality.

Between 2017 and 2019, she was part of the ILO Technical Secretariat for the Commission on Future of Work. She is also actively involved in the Conference Organising Committee of the Regulating for Decent work (RDW) Conference, a biennial event organised by the ILO in collaboration with academic institutions.

She holds a Ph.D in Development Economics from University of Hyderabad, India and has published in Journals and edited volumes, and has co-authored books.