Katja Hujo is head of the UNRISD Bonn office and leads the Transformative Social Policy Programme. Katja’s academic work focuses on social policy, poverty and inequality, migration, financing social policy and eco-social contracts. She studied economics and political science at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and holds a doctoral degree in economics from FUB. At UNRISD, she is lead author and coordinator of the 2022 flagship report Crises of Inequality: Shifting Power for a New Eco-Social Contract and of the 2016 UNRISD flagship report Policy Innovations for Transformative Change – Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Her most recent publications are the edited volume Between Fault Lines and Front Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World (Bloomsbury June 2022) and The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development (Palgrave Macmillan July 2020). In partnership with the Green Economy Coalition, she represents UNRISD as co-convenor of the Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract (GRAN-ESC). Katja is a member of the GETSPA advisory committee.
