Chung Ah Baek is a Research Officer in the Governance Cluster at IDS. Her work focuses on care work to develop policies that create equitable and sustainable care economies and on women’s movements in countering backlash. She has been engaged in research that examines the intersection of climate change and gender – specifically, how climate change disproportionately impacts various groups of people – to understand the role of gender in shaping climate policies and building resilience.

Prior to joining the IDS, she completed her PhD at the University of Warwick on gendered climate-induced displacement, with the case study of 2008 Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. Building on the feminist lens of everyday life, she examined how the process of rebuilding post-disaster everyday life is gendered. She also worked on community engagement and policy advocacy focusing on migration/anti-modern slavery from Southeast Asia. She gained expertise in corporate social responsibility and sustainability through her previous work.