Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at Manchester University and was previously Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her books include the award-winning A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, and Gender and Green Governance. In 2008, she received a Padma Shri from the President of India, and in 2010 the Leontief Prize from Tufts University “for broadening the frontiers of economic thought”.