Elise Klein

Dr. Elise Klein (OAM) is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU). She holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford and is co-director of the Australian Basic Income Lab. Her research focuses on intersections of development, social policy, decoloniality, and care, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous rights and reparative justice.

Dr. Klein has authored books such as Developing Minds: Psychology, Neoliberalism, Power and Reading Amartya Sen’s Inequality Re-examined, and co-edited volumes including Critical Global Development and Implementing a Basic Income in Australia. Her work has influenced parliamentary policy and been featured in media outlets like the Guardian, New York Times, and ABC.

Her research interests include feminist political economy, social policy design, and decolonizing methodologies. Awards include the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research (2019). She has advised the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Development and contributed to multiple parliamentary inquiries.

Recent publications explore reparative public policy, Indigenous conceptions of care, and the socio-economic impacts of basic income trials during the pandemic. Her projects address remote Indigenous employment, welfare conditionality, and gender justice frameworks.