Shalini Randeria

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Shalini Randeria is an American-born [1] Indian anthropologist. [2]

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Education

She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1955, and brought up in Mumbai and New Delhi, [1] Randeria is an alumna of the University of Delhi, the University of Oxford and Heidelberg University, [3] and earned her PhD at the Free University of Berlin. [3] [4]

Career

She is tenured as a professor of anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland and appointed as the rector of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna, Austria. [1] [5] She is also the director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, a research centre affiliated to the Graduate Institute. [6]

Considered as an expert on democracies, [6] she has held various positions at the University of Zurich, the University of Munich, the Central European University, and retains the position of visiting professor at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. She was formerly a member of the editorial board of the Annual Review of Anthropology . [5]

In June 2021, the Central European University announced that Randeria would become the university's sixth president and rector. Randeria succeeded Michael Ignatieff and became the first woman to serve as president of the university. [7]

In November 2024 Randeria resigned as a rector before the end of her term. The official reason given was 'to spend more time with research [8] ', however, according to media reports, she was pushed out by the board after intense internal criticism of her leadership including failing to find a campus for the university, ongoing financial troubles [9] and closing an awarding winning education program for refugees, which led to a year of protests at the university [10] .

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  2. ↑ Von Thadden, Elisabeth (25 April 2020). "Darf der Corona-Impfstoff patentiert werden?". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  3. 1 2 Gollner, Marion (22 August 2014). "Shalini Randeria wird neue Rektorin am IWM". APA-OTS (in German). Austria Press Agency . Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "From Delhi to Vienna: Globalizing the IWM". Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen . News Section. 14 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. 1 2 "Shalini Randeria". Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies . Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  6. 1 2 Bradley, Simon (30 May 2017). "Trust in democratic institutions is 'in freefall'". Swissinfo . Swiss Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "Shalini Randeria Elected CEU's 6th Rector and President". Central European University Newsroom. Budapest, Hungary. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  8. ↑ "CEU President and Rector, Shalini Randeria, Announces She Will Step Down at End of Academic Year 2024/2025 | Central European University". www.ceu.edu. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
  9. ↑ "Smogglocke über Wien: Wie gefährlich sind die hohen Feinstaubwerte?". www.falter.at. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
  10. ↑ "Outcry as CEU closes refugee access programme". Times Higher Education (THE). 24 February 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
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