Core team The core development team is based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex Matteo Richiardi CeMPA Director, ISER Daria Popova CeMPA Deputy Director, ISER Alex Anthony Postgraduate Research Student, ISER Ashley Burdett Senior Research Officer, ISER Rejoice Frimpong Researcher, Essex County Council Aleksandra Kolndrekaj Senior Research Officer, ISER Liang Shi Senior Research Officer David Sonnewald Senior Research Officer, ISER Maria Vartuzova Senior Research Officer, ISER Justin van de Ven Research Fellow, ISER Melchior Vella Postgraduate Research Fellow Research Affiliates Our core team is joined by international experts in leading institutions across the world Sonia BhalotraProfessor, University of Warwick Diego ColladoResearcher, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), United Nations Paola De AgostiniSenior Economist (modelling), JRC Sevilla Francesco FigariProfessor, Department of Economics, University of Eastern Piedmont Katrin GasiorResearch Fellow, Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) Zhechun HeAssistant Professor, Department of Economics, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University Herwig ImmervollHead of Employment-Oriented Social Policies, OECD Xavier Jara TamayoResearch Officer, LSE Chrysa LeventiResearcher, JRC Sevilla Jekaterina NavickėResearcher, Vilnius University Michael NobleEmeritus Professor of Social Policy University of Oxford, Southern African Social Policy Research Institute NPC Cathal O'Donoghue Professor of Public and Social Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway Jukka PirttiläProfessor of Public Economics, University of Helsinki Olga RastriginaLabour Market Economist - Jobs and Income division, OECD Pia RattenhuberResearch Fellow, UNU-Wider Agathe SimonSenior Research Officer, ESRI, Dublin Holly SutherlandEmeritus Professor, Former Director of EUROMOD, University of Essex Dan TangIndependent researcher Agnes WerpachowskaResearcher and CEO, Averisera Ltd Gemma WrightResearch Director, Southern African Social Policy Research Institute NPC Silvia AvramResearch Fellow, University of Essex Yanchun BaoLecturer in Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex Cara BookerResearch Fellow and Graduate Director, University of Essex Hongsheng DaiReader in Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex Ben EtheridgeLecturer in Economics, University of Essex Marco FrancesconiProfessor of Economics, niversity of Essex Emily GrundyProfessor of Population Science, University of Essex Stella HadjiantoniLecturer in Data Science and Statistics, University of Essex Meena KumariProfessor of Biological and Social Epidemiology, University of Essex Berthold LausenProfessor of Data Science, University of Essex Renee LuthraProfessor of Sociology, University of Essex Sheri MarkoseProfessor of Economics, University of Essex
