Lukas Lehner

Biography

Lukas Lehner is a DPhil candidate at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. His research is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Scatcherd European and the Saven European scholarships of the University of Oxford.

His research interest is labour market policy. In his dissertation, Lukas investigates the link between employment and wages. He conducts a randomised control trial on a pilot job guarantee scheme. Recently, he founded the Oxford Supertracker: The Global Directory of COVID Policy Trackers and Surveys.

Previously, Lukas worked as a Young Associate Economist at the OECD Economics Department in Paris, as a Junior Economist at the International Labour Organization in Geneva and as a Research Assistant at the London School of Economics. He holds an MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics.

Find more information on Lukas’ work on his Website and on Twitter.