Karin Schönpflug is an economist and a Senior Researcher in the research group Social Cohesion and Polarisation. Before joining IHS in 2008, she was a researcher at the Austrian Ministry of Finance; and she taught macroeconomics at the University of Portland Maine and at Otago University in New Zealand. Currently she teaches at the FH-Campus Vienna and the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt. 

Karin’s research is concentrated on the socio-economic inclusion and exclusion of queer and marginalized people, most recently including the intersectional aspect of ageing, building on her expertise in the sustainability of public finances with population ageing. She is interested in statistical practices in population accounting as well as the construction of consumer price indices, both connected to legal inclusion, social cohesion and creation of inequality. She has worked on the social costs of violence and discrimination for women, children and LGBTIQ+ populations.