Sabina Alkire

The Reverend Sabina Alkire
Alkire in 2019
Born	1969 (age 54–55) Göttingen, Germany
Academic career
Field	Welfare economics, development economics, Ethics
Institution	University of Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
School or tradition	Capability approach
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BA) Magdalen College, University of Oxford (MPhil, MSc, DPhil)
Influences	Amartya Sen Martha Nussbaum
Contributions	Human development theory
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Notes
Thesis                   Operationalizing Amartya Sen's capability approach to human development: a framework for identifying valuable capabilities. (1998)

Sabina Alkire is an American academic and Anglican priest, who is the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), an economic research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, England, which was established in 2007.^[1] She is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association.^[2] She has worked with organizations such as the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the United Nations Human Development Programme Human Development Report Office, the European Commission, and the UK's Department for International Development.^[3]

Alkire and fellow OPHI member economist James Foster developed the Alkire Foster Method, a method of measuring multidimensional poverty. It includes identifying ‘who is poor’ by considering the range of deprivations they suffer, and aggregating that information to reflect societal poverty.^[4] The application and implementation of the Alkire-Foster (AF) method produced a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a tool to identify the range of poverty among a population based on specified indicators.^[5]