Dr Elise Klein OAM is Associate Professor of Public Policy at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on development policy and social policy with a specific interest in work, redistribution, decoloniality and care.

Dr Klein worked for over ten years in Mali as well as working on the Human Rights Committee within the United Nations General Assembly. She has advised the United Nations High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Development and conducted numerous consultancies for multilateral agencies and NGOs.

She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2019.