Rhonda Dawn Sharp (born 1953), is an adjunct professor of economics at the

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and project team leader and chief researcher of the university's Hawke Research Institute and Research Centre for Gender Studies. In 2007 Sharp was an advisor to the UN Women's Expert Group Meeting (EGM): Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women, and from 2000 to 2001 she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE).

Education

Rhonda Sharp gained a degree in economics (1975) and a diploma in education (1976) from the

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. She went to the

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where she achieved her master of economics in 1982. In 1997 Sharp qualified in her doctorate at the

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