Orsolya Lelkes, MSc PhD is an economist, social researcher, certified solution-focused coach and psychodrama director.
Currently she works as a trainer of the Psychodrama Akademie Österreich, ÖAGG, co-leading the “Psychodrama-Changemaker Kurzlehrgang”, and is engaged in a number of interdisciplinary research projects on participatory democracy, ecological sustainability and social justice. She has been researching the subject of well-being and happiness for decades. Her recent book “Sustainable Hedonism. A Thriving Life That Does Not Cost the Earth” was published by
Bristol University Press in 2021. The German edition (by Oekom Verlag) is currently under way.
Earlier, she held the position of Deputy Director, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, affiliated to the United Nations, and she was the Head of Economic Research Division at the Hungarian Ministry of Finance.
She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.