Global award conferred on Bina Agarwal | Video of her lecture — Hidden Inequalities, Visible Outcomes: A Gender Lens

First Global Inequality Research Award for Bina Agarwal

Professor Bina Agarwal received the First Global Inequality Research Award at a ceremony held at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) on 19 March 2025 for her “groundbreaking work in the field of social and environmental inequalities”. The award was presented by Prof. Thomas Piketty on behalf of PSE’s World Inequality Lab and Sciences Po, France. The gift was a Louvre replica of the first school tablets found in Šuš, Mesopotamia. The ceremony was followed by Prof. Agarwal’s lecture on “Hidden Inequalities, Visible Outcomes: A Gender Lens”.

Bina Agarwal, a Padma Shri and author of the multiple award-winning book, A Field of One’s Own, is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the GDI, the University of Manchester and former Professor and Director, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, where she is still affiliated.