Shalini Randeria

Rector, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)

India/Austria

Shalini Randeria is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, as well as the Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the IHEID. She holds the Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen, where she leads a research group on Soft Authoritarianism and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of Public Anthropologist and of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. She serves on the Board of European Forum Alpbach and the Board of Trustees of the Central European University (CEU).