Heidi Leonhardt holds a master’s degree in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy from WU Vienna. During her master’s she focused on topics around Ecological Economics, Socially Sustainable De-growth and Sustainable Work. Currently she is a research assistant and PhD student at the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development at BOKU, Vienna, where she works on institutions and farmers’ soil conservation behaviour. She teaches History of Economic Thought at the University of Graz and is a member of the Society for Pluralist Economics Education in Vienna, as well as an active member of the Austrian Alpine Association.