Dr. Vibhuti Patel retired as Professor, Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on 30-6-2020. Prior to that, she retired as Professor and Head of Economics Department of SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai on 30-6-2017. She was Director, Post Graduate Studies and Research of SNDT Women’s University from 2006-2012. Her areas of specialization have been Gender Economics, Women’s Studies, Human Rights, Social Movements and Gender Budgeting. She has authored Women’s Challenges of the New Millennium (2002), co-authored Reaching for Half the Sky (1985), Indian Women Change and Challenge (1985) and Status Report for ICSSR- Critical Evaluation of Women’s Studies Research during 1947-1988 (1989). She is co-editor of series of 15 volumes- Empowering Women Worldwide. She has edited 2 books namely Discourse on Women and Empowerment (2009) and Girls and Girlhoods at the Threshold of Youth and Gender (2010). She is a member of Research and Recognition Committee (Economics) and a member of Board of Studies (BoS), Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), College Development Committee (CDC) of several colleges of for University of Mumbai and SNDT Women’s University. As a member of Expert Committee of the Working Group on Discrimination against women and girls of United Nations Human Rights Council, she contributed to prepare a Report on Women’s Human Rights in the Changing World of Women, 2020.