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Stephan Klasen is professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he also heads the Courant Research Center 'Poverty, equity, and growth in developing and transition countries.  He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (where he completed a dissertation under the supervision of Amartya Sen on gender bias in mortality during the development process).  He has since held positions at the World Bank, King's College (Cambridge, UK) and the University of Munich, Germany. His research focuses mostly on measurement, determinants and consequences of gender bias in developing countries. He is also a member of the UN Committee on Development Policy as well as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.