Dr Antra Bhatt

Antra Bhatt is a Statistics Specialist in the Research and Data Section of UN Women. She is a key contributor in the statistical analysis for UN Women’s flagship reports such as Progress of the World’s Women and co-author for World Survey on the Role of Women in Development and From Insights to Action: Gender Equality in the wake of COVID-19. Before joining UN Women in 2017, Antra worked as a researcher on women’s economic and social empowerment at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome. She has authored a number of publications and background papers on gender inequality and its intersection with poverty, health, unpaid care, labour markets including articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, UN Women Spotlight Papers, book chapters and Op-Eds. She holds an MS in Public Policy and PhD in Economics.