Place of birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Parentage: daughter of Dr John Sweetman and Marianne Van Hoeven

Family: married Abraham Woldegiorgis; two sons, Joseph and Ezra Abraham

Education: BA (Hons), University of Cambridge; MA (Distinction), University of East Anglia; PhD, ‘Livelihoods, Poverty and the Empowerment of Women: An Ethiopian Case-Study’, University of Leeds 2005

Career: Caroline Sweetman trained as a journalist and lived and worked in Lesotho from 1988–92, founding and co-editing a UNICEF sponsored development media project, Shoeshoe. Research in Lesotho focused in particular on the social and economic impact on families in Lesotho of male loss of minework in South Africa. After studying for her MA, she became Editor of its journal Gender & Development (see url below), a journal of policy and practice which seeks to support and promote development interventions which further gender equality as a means and a goal. During her career with Oxfam, Caroline Sweetman has also acted as a gender adviser and policy researcher in advocacy and campaigning and has worked in particular in southern and East African countries. She lectures and teaches in academic institutions and undertakes consultancies.

Publications include: Gender Analysis in Development Series No. 9 1995, The Miners Return: Gender Relations in Lesotho’s Ex-Migrants’ Families 1995, Gender Works: Oxfam Experience in Policy and Practice (co-edited with Ines Smyth and Fenella Porter) 1999; several book chapters and articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: The Editor, Gender & Development, Oxfam GB, Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 2JY, England; Tel: +44 (0)1865 473727; Email: csweetman@oxfam.org.uk ; Email: gadeditor@oxfam.org.uk ; Website: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/gad/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13552074.asp/ .