Dr. Rosita Woodly-Sobhie is a Surinamese senior economist and survey methodologist with over 20 years of experience in poverty measurement, labour market analysis, and social policy research. She holds a PhD in Social Economic Sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and serves as Dean and Lector of the Interfaculty for Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR) at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, where she leads interdisciplinary graduate programmes in economics, statistics, and social development, supervising over 120 graduate students annually.
Her research focuses on poverty and inequality measurement, social protection, social assistance system design, macroeconomic modelling, and growth forecasting for small open economies, with an emphasis on evidence-based policy for the Caribbean region. She is a long-standing technical advisor to Suriname’s National Poverty Commission.
