Valentine M. Moghadam is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University, Boston. Previously she directed women’s studies programs at Purdue University and Illinois State University. She was also a section chief at UNESCO (2004-06), heading the Gender Equality and Development Unit of the Social and Human Sciences Sector and a senior researcher at UNU/WIDER. Her areas of research include globalization, transnational social movements and feminist networks, and gender, politics, and development in the Middle East and North Africa.