Bhumika Muchhala

Associate, International Monetary Fund Program

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Bhumika joined BIC in August 2007 as the Associate for the IMF Program. Previously, Bhumika was at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she conceptualized and organized large-scale policy forums and conferences on development economics issues such as policy space and assessing the Asian financial crisis ten years after its onset. At the Wilson Center, she also edited and managed various publications. Bhumika also has significant experience in the international labor rights movement in both Indonesia and the U.S., with Oxfam International, United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the Worker’s Rights Consortium (WRC). As Oxfam's Indonesia field researcher, she conducted extensive interviews with sportswear factory workers and analyzed the links between sourcing practices and labor rights violations. As USAS' international programs coordinator, she organized corporate accountability campaigns for a network of over 200 university chapters, and at WRC she conducted a self-designed field research program to develop a framework for factory investigations and to build alliances and workshop programs with the Indonesian labor movement.

Bhumika is originally from Bombay, India, and was raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. She moved to the United States in 1996. She is fluent in Hindi, Gujarati, Bahasa Indonesia, and Bahasa Malay. She has a M.Sc in International Development from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in Literary and Cultural Studies and Political Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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