Fanni Kovesdi

Research and Development Manager
fanni.kovesdi@qeh.ox.ac.uk
@fnkovesdi
Fanni Kovesdi
Fanni Kovesdi

Biography

Fanni is a Research and Development Manager at OPHI where she has worked since 2018. She leads research projects that focus on measuring multidimensional poverty and wellbeing in contexts of high human development or explore how to improve the quality of multidimensional poverty data globally. Some of her recent work includes convening a high-level expert workshop, conducting a scoping study of household surveys, designing and piloting a new ‘moderate poverty index’ for middle-income countries, and piloting a wellbeing index for the UK.

Fanni also works with international agencies and national governments in Europe and Central Asia, supporting the design of national MPIs. She also leads OPHI’s annual Summer School, and coordinates OPHI’s research fundraising. 

Previously at OPHI, she led the first large-scale trends analysis of OPHI’s global Multidimensional Poverty Index for 80 countries, and the first disaggregation of the index by ethnicity. She was a regular contributor to the annual global MPI reports, and has collaborated on projects with the World Bank, UNDP, and UNHCR.

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  • Education

    MSc in Sociology, University of Oxford
    BSc in Politics and Sociology, University of Bristol 

  • Research interests

    Multidimensional poverty measurement; wellbeing; household survey data; housing and living conditions; material deprivation; social inequalities. 

  • Selected publications

    Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Scheja, E. and Vollmer, F. (2023). ‘Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: Paving the Way Out of Poverty’, Social Indicators Research, published 27 May 2023.

    Alkire, S. and Kovesdi, F. (2022). ‘A Birdseye View of Well-being: Exploring a Multidimensional Measure for the United Kingdom’ in Reynolds, B. et al (ed). Towards Wellbeing for All. Social Justice Ireland, Dublin.

    Kovesdi, F. (2021) ‘Going beyond the global MPI: a new international measure for moderate poverty’, Dimensions 12. 16 June 2021.

    Admasu, Y., Alkire, S., Ekhator-Mobayode, U. E., Kovesdi, F., Santamaria, J. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2021). ‘A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement’. Policy Research Working Paper; No. 9826. World Bank, Washington, DC. 

    Alkire, S. and Kovesdi, F. (2020). ‘A Birdseye View of Well-being: Exploring a Multidimensional Measure for the United Kingdom’, HDR Background Paper No.6-2020. Human Development Report Office, New York

    Alkire, S. and Kovesdi, F. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty across ethnic groups: Disaggregating the global MPI’, OPHI Briefing 55. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.

    Alkire, S., F. Kovesdi, M. Pinilla-Roncancio and S. Scharlin-Pettee. (2020). ‘Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index and other measures: Towards national poverty reports’, OPHI Research in Progress 57a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.

    Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Mitchell, C., Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2020). ‘Changes over Time in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 50, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.