Academic Direction

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Jelena Nikolic, PhD is a labor economist trained at the London School of Economics and affiliated with the Human Flourishing Network. She is a chapter author in Leadership for Flourishing (Oxford University Press), where she demonstrates—using rigorous empirical evidence—that human flourishing functions as a performance engine, not merely an aspirational ideal.

Applied Human Flourishing reflects Jelena’s long-standing work at the intersection of economics, institutional design, and human flourishing, translating theory into applied methodologies that universities and organizations can deploy responsibly and at scale.