Sabina Alkire has a DPhil in Economics, and directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) in the University of Oxford, where she is Professor of Poverty and Human Development. OPHI advances the measurement and policy use of multidimensional poverty (and well-being) indices (MPIs) – such as the global MPI released jointly with UNDP, and also accompanies national official poverty statistics tailored multidimensional indices to country contexts.
Alkire’s research focuses on Sen’s capability approach; well-being and poverty measurement and analysis; child, gendered and intrahousehold analyses of multidimensional poverty indices; and poverty data.