about-me
Ortrud Leßmann
Since the beginning of 2023 I'm working at the German Youth Institute in Munich in the Service- and Monitoringcentre for the implementation of the National Action Plan "New Opportunities for Children in Germany" (European Child Guarantee). After positions at the institute performance work health, the University of Hamburg, the international research center for social and ethical questions (ifz)
in Salzburg and the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg in projects on working conditions in home care services, labour standards, social investment, sustainable consumption, fair and sustainable human development on the basis of the capability approach, I have thus returned to the subject of defining and measuring poverty. Further, I teach at various universities.
I studied economics at the universities of Augsburg, Bonn and Oldenburg. My doctoral thesis compared the conditions-of-life approach and the Capability Approach with respect to poverty measurement.
My research interests lie in the overlap of economics, philosophy, sociology, education, and social work. They comprise the Capability and the conditions-of-life approach, integrated sustainability concepts, the measurement of multidimensional poverty, freedom and well-being, learning to choose and political consequences of these conceptions. For example, I have been involved in writing Another Europe is possible: for a fair distribution for the Alliances to fight poverty.
I live in Hamburg and Munich.
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