Lukas Schlögl is a social scientist specializing in development policy, development financing, and the impact of technological change on development. Since August 2022, he has been a Senior Researcher at ÖFSE and a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna. His recent research focuses on development finance and policy, green finance, robotization in developing countries, digital policy in Southeast Asia, the relationship between (de)industrialization and democracy, and global technology policy discourses.

Research Areas:

• Development policy (at national and international levels)
• Development finance (including 'green' finance)
• Politics of development and public opinion
• Digitalisation and technological change

Previous Positions

• Senior Researcher at the Austrian Foundation for Development Research (OFSE) (since 08/2022)
• Post Doc at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna (2018–2022)
• Post Doc at the Department of International Development, King’s College London (2017–2018)
• Teaching Assistant at the Bartlett Development Unit, University College London, and at the Department of International Development, King’s College London (2013–2017)
• Assistant to the Managing Board at the Sir Peter Ustinov Institut (2011–2013)
• Project Assistant at the Austrian Foundation for Development Research (OFSE) (2008)

Research stays

• Visiting professor, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia (9/2021)
• Researcher in residence, Federal Institute for Adult Education (Bifeb) (8/2021)
• Visiting fellow, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London (1-3/2018)
• Visiting scholar, UN Global Pulse, Jakarta (6–8/2015)
• Visiting scholar, UN Global Pulse, Jakarta (9–11/2014)
• Erasmus exchange student, University Vaasa, Finland (1-6/2009)

Teaching Experience

Teaching on topics including: the changing nature of work, technology and politics, research methods, development economics, economic inequality

• Teaching as Post Doc and as external Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna (since 2018)
• Visiting professor, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia (9/2021)
• Teaching Assistant at the Bartlett Development Unit, University College London, and at the Department of International Development, King’s College London (2013–2017)
• Tutor on several courses on topics of development finance, Department of International Development, University of Vienna (2006–2008)

Education

• PhD in Quantitative Social Science, Department of International Development, King’s College London, UK. Thesis supervised by Prof. Andy Sumner and Prof. Peter Kingstone.
• Magister (MA equivalent) in International Development, Department of International Development, University of Vienna. Thesis supervised Prof. Alejandro Cuñat.

Activities

• Member of the research platform ‘Governance of Digital Practices’ and the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS), University of Vienna
• Member of the EADI-DSA Multidimensional Poverty & Poverty Dynamics Working Group
• Peer review activities for various publishers und the Theodor Körner Fund
• Co-PI on the project ‚Work and Corona‘ (Fund for Digitalisation, Vienna Chamber of Labour)
• Co-opted member of the Executive Board of the Global Responsibility Working Group (AG Globale Verantwortung)

› CV (pdf)

• Schlögl, L. (2022). “Leapfrogging into the unknown: The future of structural change in the developing world”. In: The developer’s dilemma: Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth (Alisjahbana, A. et al., eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp 253-274.
• Schlögl, L. (2022). Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class: Generation Hashtag. Milton Park and New York: Routledge.
• Schlögl, L., and Kim, K. (2021). After authoritarian technocracy: the space for industrial policy-making in democratic developing countries. Third World Quarterly.
• Schlögl, L., Weiss, E. and Prainsack, B. (2021). Constructing the ‘Future of Work’: An analysis of the policy discourse. New Technology, Work and Employment. 2021;00:1–20.
• Schlögl, L. (2020). “From Digital Divide to Digital Displacement: Reconsidering the Future of Work in Developing Countries”. In: Digitalization for Development? Challenges for Developing Countries. Österreichische Entwicklungspolitik 2020. Wien: ÖFSE.
• Schlögl, L. (2021) „Covid-19 als ‚Grosser Ungleichmacher‘: Die Krise der Arbeit und ihre globalen sozialen Folgen“. In: Ursula Filipič, Annika Schönauer (Hg.) Ein Jahr Corona: Ausblick Zukunft der Arbeit. Sozialpolitik in Diskussion. Wien: Arbeiterkammer. Pp 21-27.
• Schlögl L., Sumner A. (2020) Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation, Palgrave (Open Access)
• Schlögl L. (2020) Leapfrogging into the unknown - The future of structural change in the developing world, WIDER Working Paper 2020/25. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
• Schlögl, L. und Sumner, A. (2018) The Rise of the Robot Reserve Army: Automation and the Future of Economic Development, Work, and Wages in Developing Countries. Center for Global Development Working Paper 487. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development.
• Cobham, A., Schlögl, L. und Sumner, A. (2016), Inequality and the Tails: The Palma Proposition and Ratio, Global Policy, Volume 7, Issue 1.