Salimah Valiani
Salimah Valiani is a Research Manager at the Parkland Institute and a researcher of world historical political economy. She is the author of the research monographs, The Africa Care Economy Index (FEMNET and UNDP, 2023), and Rethinking Unequal Exchange: the global integration of nursing labour markets (University of Toronto Press, 2012). Valiani has also published policy papers, journal articles, and popular pieces on the political economy of healthcare, temporary labour migration, and various aspects of socio-economic development. She has served as a researcher and political economist in unions, nongovernmental organisations and think tanks in Canada and South Africa since 2001. In 2012 she received the Feminist Economics Rhonda Williams Prize – an award recognising feminist scholarship and activism in the spirit of the African American economist and advocate, Rhonda Williams. Valiani is also a published poet. Her poetry collection, 29 leads to love (Inanna, 2021) won the 2022 International Book Award for Contemporary Poetry.
