Hema Swaminathan’s research focuses on a broad range of issues, including, gendered inequality in income and wealth distributions, drivers of women’s labor force participation, and strengthening gender statistics across domains. She was co-PI on the Gender Asset Gap project, a unique project that pioneered individual-level asset and wealth data collection and contributed to global guidelines for collecting such data. She is well-published in international peer-reviewed journals. She is a Professor, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (India). She has also worked at the International Center for Research on Women (USA).