About us

SOPHIA OXFORD

SOPHIA Oxford enables businesses to incorporate key social indicators into sustainable business practices that improve the impact of their social investments and the lives of their employees and customers.

SOPHIA Oxford was formed by Oxford University, as a not-for-profit partner of Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Over the past decade OPHI has developed the field of multidimensional measurement, focused primarily on poverty and wellbeing, expanding its research and social policy uses. The OPHI multidimensional poverty approach has been adopted by the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank and as an official measure of poverty by more than thirty countries. SOPHIA Oxford is an incubator creating commercial applications of this world class methodology for the private sector and capital markets.

OUR VISION

Our vision is a world in which the private sector, governments and communities harness their abilities and resources in the global effort to end poverty.

OUR BELIEFS

icon01

Poverty is multidimensional.
Poverty is not just about income.
It is also 
about vulnerability.

icon02

Poverty and vulnerability have
many dimensions, such as health 

and education.

icon03

Poverty is a global, national,
community
, and personal issue.
It 
requires responses at all levels.

icon04

Investments in people are best made with evidence-based models, ongoing research and validation.

icon05

Ending poverty requires joint
public- private partnerships with
clear accountability.

icon06

Investment in the health, growth and prosperity of employees, households and local communities has the power
to re-invigorate an economy.

OUR VALUES

We care about those who are poor in key life necessities. We care about those who are powerful and wealthy. We believe that in bringing them together, we can end poverty.

We care about measuring
poverty
and vulnerability
in its many dimensions.

We care about using those measurements to shape
action
that improves lives.

We care about the gender
and racial dynamics of
inequity and opportunity.

new
> GO TO