Professor Elizabeth Hill is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Economics (Social Sciences) with Honours, completed in 1992, and a PhD in 2005, both from the University of Sydney. Her academic career began in 1993 as a tutor on the unit ‘Women In and Out of the Economy’, advancing through lecturer positions to her current professorship. She teaches units on international development and, since 2024, the Political Economy of Women. Hill's research specializations centre on the future of gender and work in Australia and the Asian region, examining how economic institutions shape women’s paid work, unpaid care, and the care workforce amid global political economy transformations. Her interests include the undervaluation of women’s work, workplace sexual harassment, international care chains, migrant labour programs, and the marketisation of care services. She has collaborated with the International Labour Organisation, UN Women, APEC, and the OECD on gender equality and care research.

In leadership roles, Hill serves as Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work, co-convenor of the Australian Work and Family Policy Roundtable, which she founded in 2005, and co-convenor of the Body@Work Project. She is a member of the NSW Women’s Advisory Council, has acted as a non-executive director on non-profit boards, and advises governments, unions, and businesses as a media commentator on work-life balance and gender equality. Key publications include her book Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy (Routledge, 2010), co-authored At a Turning Point: Work, Care and Family Policies in Australia (Sydney University Press, 2024) with Marian Baird and Sarah Colussi, and ‘Feminist Political Economy at the University of Sydney’ (Journal of Australian Political Economy, 2025) with Gabrielle Meagher. Hill has secured Australian Research Council grants for projects addressing gender inequality in the post-pandemic future of work and workplace gender equality interventions.

Professional Email: elizabeth.hill@sydney.edu.au