Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
Concepció Patxot Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona (UB) and researcher at the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT). B.A and PhD in Economics (UB) and MSc in Economics at QMW (University of London). Her research focuses on the analysis of intergenerational transfers, both at theoretical and empirical level; using and developing different methods to analyze the effect of the demographic transition on the economy and the sustainability of the welfare state (Overlapping generations models, Generational Accounting, National Transfers Accounts and Microsimulation). She has leaded and worked in several collaborative projects financed in competitive terms by national governments and the European Commission, being the results published in several international peer review journals as Journal of Population Economics, ITAX, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Population and Development Review and the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, among others.
Austrian Institute of Economic Research – WIFO (Austria)
Dr Martin Spielauer is Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the Research Group “Labour Market, Income and Social Security” since 2016. His main research interest and competence is the development of simulation models for the study of transfer- and social insurance systems in the context of demographic change. Martin Spielauer has a strong international background which includes 9 years at Statistics Canada’s Socio-Economic Modelling Division and 3 years at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He obtained his PhD in Social Sciences and Economics at the University of Vienna. Before that he held research positions at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Austrian Institute for Family Studies, and the TU Wien. He has been sharing his expertise in countless visiting positions, lecturing roles and consultancies around the globe and published in academic journals as well as in reports of government agencies and international organisations.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Dr. Michael C. Wolfson received his B.Sc with honours from University of Toronto jointly in mathematics, computer science and economics in 1971, and then a Ph.D. from Cambridge in economics in 1977. He retired as Assistant Chief Statistician, Analysis and Development (which included the Health Statistics program and the central R&D function) at Statistics Canada in 2009. He was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa for 2010-2017. Prior to joining Statistics Canada, he held increasingly senior positions in the Treasury Board Secretariat, the Department of Finance, the Privy Council Office, the House of Commons, and the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office. While a senior public servant, he was also a founding Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program in Population Health (1988-2003). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a member of the recently created Canadian Statistics Advisory Council.
Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis, Institute for Social and Economic Research – University of Essex (United Kingdom)
Prof. Matteo Richiardi is CeMPA Director and a labour economist, primarily interested in research on inequalities and insecurity, unemployment, and income, within a life course perspective. He focuses on using large-scale survey and administrative micro-data, and microsimulation techniques and computational methods to investigate these topics. The Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA) is based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex. CeMPA evolved out of the original team responsible for the development of the microsimulation model EUROMOD, and now leads the field in microsimulation. CeMPA includes experts with diverse specialisms across the University of Essex, including Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Sociology and Economics. Analysis at CeMPA benefits from a long tradition of micro-data analysis at its host institution, ISER.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Prof. Guadalupe Souto [BA (Econ); PhD (Econ)] is Lecturer in Public Economics at the Applied Economics Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She has worked in different fields related to Public Economics, especially in public policies and social expenditure. In the last years, she has been collaborating in different research projects, both at national and international level, analyzing intergenerational transfers and the effects of ageing on social policies. Results of her investigation have been published in different refereed journals as Ecological Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Population Economics, Fiscal Studies, Population and Development Review, Demographic Research and the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, among others.