Lucy J Ferguson

I am a consultant, researcher and trainer. My subject is gender equality in large institutions: why organisations that commit to equality so often fail to deliver it, and what it takes for the people who run them to act differently. That question applies to any change an organisation finds hard.

I hold a PhD from the University of Manchester and am a Research Associate at the Gender Centre of the Graduate Institute, Geneva. I have held academic posts at Birmingham, Sheffield and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and I live in Valencia.

Selected writing

• Gender Training: A Transformative Tool for Gender Equality (Palgrave, 2018)
• The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer, co-editor (Palgrave, 2016)
• Article on the UN-SWAP accountability mechanism, with Elisabeth Prügl (International Affairs, forthcoming 2026)
• Global Report on Women in Tourism, lead author (UN Tourism, 2019)

Selected clients UNIDO · UN Tourism · WHO / Global Polio Eradication Initiative · UNV · UNDP · UNSSC · EIGE · IIED · ITC-ILO · OAS/CIM · Intrepid Travel · Graduate Institute, Geneva