Astghik Mavisakalyan

Biography

Astghik Mavisakalyan is a Professor of Economics at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin University. She is also a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW) and leads Curtin’s node of the Centre. Prior to joining Curtin, she held an appointment at the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University. Astghik is a member of the Hiroshima Institute of Health Economics Research, a Fellow of the Global Labour Organisation, and has held visiting positions, fellowships or consultancies at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg), the Centre for Labour and Welfare Research (Oslo), UNU-WIDER (Helsinki), the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative at Open Society Institute (Budapest), and the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW (Sydney).

Astghik’s current research focuses on gender, violence, crime, health, wellbeing and institutions. She has published over 40 articles in economics and interdisdiplinary journals such as European Economic Review, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and Scientific Reports, as well as several book chapters and handbook entries. According to IDEAS/RePEc, based on the past 10 years publications, she ranks among the  top 5% of economists worldwide. Astghik’s work has shaped public discourse with citations in reports by international organizations, references in Australian parliamentary proceedings, and coverage in media outlets such as the BBC News, Foreign Affairs and Forbes.

Astghik actively contributes to the economics profession. She is a director of the Australasian Development Economics Association and the founding chair of the the Australian Gender Economics Workshop series and its steering committee. She serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and is on the editorial board of Economic Systems. She has also served as a co-editor of a special issue of the Economic Record, and on the editorial board of the Economic and Labour Relations Review. In addition, Astghik is a member of the Stronger Together Implementation Group (STIG) – a high-level inter-governmental body in Western Australia overseeing the implementation of Stronger Together: Western Australia’s Plan for Gender Equality.