Astghik Mavisakalyan is a Professor at the Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics at Curtin University and a Chief Investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), where she leads Curtin’s node of the Centre. Prior to joining Curtin, she held an appointment at the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University.

Astghik is an economist with research focus in the areas of gender, violence, health, wellbeing and institutions. Her work has been published in leading economics and interdisciplinary journals, including European Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Development, Social Science & Medicine, and Scientific Reports, as well as in influential book chapters and handbook articles. Based on publications over the past decade, she is ranked among the top 5% of economists worldwide on the IDEAS/RePEc economics rankings. Her research has shaped public discourse through citations in international organisation reports, references in Australian parliamentary proceedings, and wide media coverage.

Astghik actively contributes to the economics profession. She is a director of the Australasian Development Economics Association and the founding chair of the Australian Gender Economics Workshop series and its steering committee. She also serves as an Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and an Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.