Trude Scarlett Epstein OBE (1922 – 2014), née Grünwald, was a British-Austrian social anthropologist and economist, and a member of the "Manchester School" of anthropology.
She was a student at the Glasergasse high school in the ninth district in 1938, when she and her family became refugees following the Nazi annexation of Austria.
[2] She completed a PhD in economics under the supervision of social anthropologist Max Gluckman, the founder of the "Manchester School".
Described as one of the "pioneers" of development studies, her work focused in particular on rural economies and women's activities, and drew on fieldwork in Karnataka, India and Papua New Guinea.
[3][4] According to an obituary, Epstein became "one of the world's most recognized social anthropologists and taught at various universities in England, Australia, the USA, Israel, Papua New Guinea and India".