Eugenia McGill

Focus areas: Social impacts of globalization and development interventions, particularly gender-related impacts, as well as innovative and inclusive approaches to development planning

Eugenia McGill is a Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs and the Interim Director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration at SIPA, where she directs the Workshop in Development Practice and teaches courses in Methods for Development Practice and Gender, Politics and Development. Her teaching and research interests include the social impacts of globalization and development interventions, particularly gender-related impacts, as well as innovative and inclusive approaches to development planning.

A lawyer and development specialist, Professor McGill also advises development agencies, governments and nongovernmental organizations on social policy, law and development issues, and on addressing gender and other social concerns through development plans, programs and projects. Some of her recent projects include an assessment of gender impacts of the global recession in the Mekong region (for Asian Development Bank), a review of gender-related progress toward the Millennium Development Goals in Asia (for Asian Development Bank, UNDP and UNESCAP), and a gender analysis of trade laws and policies in Bangladesh (for the US Agency for International Development). Her recent publications include:

• " Asian Donor Support for Gender Equality and Women''s Empowerment: Comparative Experience, Challenges and Opportunities." 2013 WIDER Working Paper No.2013/138
• " Why Nations Fail: 2012 International Law Weekend Panel Addresses Law and Development Movement, Underlying Assumptions and Challenges." 2013 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law. Co-authored with Norman Greene, Wade Channell, Lara Goldmark and Terra Lawson-Remer.
• " Gender Equality and Women''s Empowerment in Asia: Mixed Progress and Future Imperatives." 2013 In Ending Asian Deprivations: Compulsions for a Fair, Prosperous and Equitable Asia (Shiladitya Chatterjee, ed.). Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge

Professor McGill is a member of the boards of directors of the East-West Management Institute and Women Thrive Worldwide, and a member of the oversight council of The School at Columbia University. She has also served on the National Screening Committee for the Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowships. Previously, she was a senior officer at Asian Development Bank and practiced law with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in New York and Hong Kong.  She has a JD from the University of Pennsylvania, MIA from SIPA, MAT from Northwestern University and BA from Williams College.

Education

• JD, University of Pennsylvania
• MIA, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
• MAT, Northwestern University
• BA, Williams College

Affiliations

• Board, East-West Management Institute
• Board, Women Thrive Worldwide

Public-service leave begins July 2017

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