Current position & affiliations

• 2022-at present: Programme Lead at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
• 2015-at present: Associate fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford Martin School, and
  Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), University of Oxford
• 2015-at present: Associate fellow, Department of Economics, Leiden University

Education

• 2011-2015: PhD in economics, Leiden University, Netherlands
• 2009-2011: Research masters (MSc) public administration, Universities of Utrecht, Rotterdam, and Tilburg, Netherlands (cum laude)
• 2005-2009: BSc public administration, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Previous employment

• 2018-2022: Economist, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, Paris
• 2018: Research fellow, Overseas Development Institute, London
• 2017: Academic visitor, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• 2016: Academic visitor,  World Bank Development Research Group (DECRG), Poverty and Inequality Group Washington DC
• 2015-2017: Postdoctoral research fellow, Nuffield College; fellow of the Employment, Equity and Growth INET Research Programme; fellow of the Oxford Martin School Inequality and Prosperity Programme; and Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
• 2014: Academic visitor, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK

Policy advisory work

• 2017-2018: Consultant, World Bank, Chief Economist Office for Europe and Central Asia. Core team member for a flagship report on distributional tensions and the social contract in the ECA region
• 2016-2017: Consultant, World Bank, Development Research Group (DECRG). Core team member for a flagship report on intergenerational educational mobility
• 2015-2016: Consultant, World Bank, Social Protection, Labor and Jobs (SPL&J) Global Practice, contributing to Greece Social Welfare Review, with a focus on minimum income support schemes and in-kind social benefits
• 2015: Consultant as part of the Equitable Access Initative (Global Fund, World Bank, UN AIDS, UNDP, WHO, Unicef, UNIT AID, UNFPA, GAVI). Received a grant as part of a team of University of Oxford economists to propose a framework for allocation of development assistance for health incorporating economic, epidemiological, health system and governance indicators
• 2013-2014: Consultant, OECD, on the evolution of healthcare expenditures in the Netherlands as part of the OECD Network on Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems
• 2011: Intern, OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs, Paris
• 2009: Intern, Social and Economic Council (SER), The Hague

Professional affiliations

• 2013-2014: Co-founder, World Healthcare Forum, a three-days international conference on healthcare innovation for 200 healthcare professionals held in The Hague
• 2012-2013: Vice-president, Dutch National Association for PhD candidates PNN
• Referee for American Political Science Review, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Economic Inequality, Comparative Political Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Political Science Research & Methods, Journal of Income Distribution, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Journal of Urban Affairs, Austrian Science Fund, reports by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), TPEdigitaal (Dutch)

Presentations

• 2021: INET Oxford, OECD Applied Economics seminar Paris, EU-Korea Civil Society Forum, Clingendael Research Institute
• 2020: Leiden Economics seminar, OVAL Dutch employers association, Dutch MP Committee on employment & social policy, Dutch Minister of Employment, Swedish MP Committee on employment & social policy
• 2019: ECINEQ Paris, Dutch Society for Social Security (NGSZ), Route66, BoFEB, Norwegian Secretary of State of Employment
• 2018: Overseas Development Institute (ODI), INET Oxford, Leiden Economics seminar
• 2017: CSAE Oxford, ECINEQ New York
• 2016: MPSA Chicago, CES Philadelphia, IARIW Dresden, SASE Berkeley, APPAM London
• 2015: MPSA Chicago, SASE London, CES Paris, iHEA Milan, ISI-IARIW Rio de Janeiro, ECSR Tallinn, Global Economic Symposium Kiel
• 2014: EPSA Edinburgh, ECPR The Hague, LIS Luxembourg, SASE Chicago
• 2013: OECD Paris, ILERA Amsterdam
• 2012: CPB/KVS Amsterdam, UM/GRESI-FWO Maastricht, NIG Leuven
• 2011: FISS Sigtuna, NAKE Utrecht
• 2010: AIAS Amsterdam, ESPAnet Budapest

Languages, skills, interests

• Dutch (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (basic)
• Stata (proficient), R (basic)
• Main interests are climbing, running (finished the Berlin marathon in 3.09.18), and playing jazz guitar