Leonie Westhoff is an Associate Researcher in the Jobs and Skills Unit at CEPS. Her work focuses on European labour market and social policy, including topics such as the platform economy, the digitalization of work and skills development.
Leonie holds a DPhil (Phd) in Social Policy from the University of Oxford, where she was an ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods and Clarendon Scholar at Nuffield College. Her doctoral research focused on the socio-economic inequalities associated with atypical employment in European countries. Prior to her doctoral studies, she studied economics, philosophy and comparative social policy in London and Oxford. Before joining CEPS, she worked in labour market research and policy at institutions such as the UK Department for Business and the Centre for Social Investigation and Institute for New Economic Thinking, both at the University of Oxford.
