Shalini Randeria, Jury Chair 2020, Social Sciences & Humanities
Shalini Randeria is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. She was Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich and the Co-Director of the Gender Studies Competence Centre as well as a member of the scientific board of the new University Priority Research Programme “Asia and Europe”. She studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Delhi and Heidelberg and completed her PhD and habilitation at the Free University of Berlin. She was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies Berlin, Max Weber Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich and Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Central European University Budapest.
In 2007 she was elected President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Board of the Research Committee (RC 09) on Transformation and Sociology of Development.
She is a member of the steering committees and scientific advisory boards of a number of European research networks and institutions both within and outside universities.