Salimah Valiani

Salimah Valiani is a researcher of world historical political economy and research manager at the Parkland Institute. She has a PhD in sociology from Carleton University and is the author of the research monographs “The Africa Care Economy Index” (FEMNET and UNDP, 2022) and “Rethinking Unequal Exchange: The Global Integration of Nursing Labour Markets” (University of Toronto Press, 2012). She's also the editor of “The Future of Mining in South Africa: Sunset or Sunrise?” (Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Research, 2018). Salimah has published several journal articles, policy papers, and media articles on health, development, feminist economics, and labour. She has served in unions, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks in Canada, South Africa, and globally. She was awarded the Feminist Economics Rhonda Williams Prize in 2012, an award recognizing feminist scholarship and activism in the spirit of the African-American economist and advocate, Rhonda Williams. Salimah is also a published poet. Her 2021 collection, “29 leads to love” (Inanna Publications), was the 2022 winner of the International Book Award for Contemporary Poetry.