Harvard-Brown-MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics (Zoom)

Date: 

Friday, December 3, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Online Only

"How do Gender Quotas Impact Accountability?"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

Speaker:

Zuheir Desai, Assistant Professor, School of Global and Public Affairs, IE University.

Contact:

Grace Cardogno
grace_cardogno@brown.edu

Co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University and the MIT Center for International Studies.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

Remote Access Information:

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Please note: This event requires registration in advance in order to receive the meeting link and password.

Speaker Bio:

Zuheir Desai is an assistant Professor in the School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University. His research focuses on electoral competition and political accountability. His work spans both theoretical models of elections, voting, and policymaking, as well as empirical applications of these models on developing democracies such as Brazil and India.

Previously, Desai was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University in the 2020-21 academic year. He received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 2020.