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Mimosa Distefano is a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is also affiliated with the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London (UCL). Current areas of research include: Labour Economics: Determinants of workers' career profiles; Gender Inequality in the labor market; Spatial trends in wage inequality Public Economics: Profit taxation; Capital taxation; Payroll Taxation

Current role: postdoctoral fellow at the London School of Economics. Expertise: migration and refugee policies, EU policies and politics, home affairs. Methods:  policy analysis, policy evaluation (Better Regulation guideline), interviews, surveys, descriptive statistics. Geographical focus: Europe and the EU; Italy, France, and the UK. Other relevant experience: worked for the European Commission (DG Home), collaborated with policymakers (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Languages: English, Italian, French, Chinese.

I am a third year PhD Student in Economics at the LSE, supervised by Professor Alan Manning. My interests lie within labour economics, focussing on technological change and the labour market with application towards inequality.

Doctoral Researcher at the London School of Economics and Scholar in 'Analysing and Challenging Inequalities' at the International Inequalities Institute. Four years of work experience in international economic and social policymaking through policy analysis, design and implementation. Particular expertise in labour markets, social assistance, economic and social inequalities, income poverty as well as in quasi-experimental quantitative methods.

Bob Hancké is an Associate Professor in Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previous appointments were at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, and as a PhD candidate at the J.F. Kennedy School and Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and at MIT. He published  Large Firms and Institutional Change  (Oxford University Press 2002),  Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradiction and Complementarities in the European Economy  (co-edited with Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher (Oxford University Press 2007),  Intelligent Research Design  (Oxford University Press 2009),  Debating Varieties of Capitalism  (Oxford University Press 2009),  Unions, Central Banks and EMU  (Oxford University Press 2013)   and participated in the project that led to  Varieties of Capitalism , edited by Peter Hall and David Soskice (Oxford University Press 2001). His research interests are: the political economy of advanced capitalist societies; the political economy of transition economies; institutions and macro-economic policy; and labour relations. Expertise:  advanced capitalist societies; institutions and macro-economic policy; labour relations; political economy; transition economies

Francisca is a Project Manager and Researcher at LSE Consulting, where she contributes to research design, business development, and project management across a wide range of policy and socioeconomic topics. She is responsible for writing and coordinating project proposals reviewing and analysing qualitative and quantitative data during projects for various public and private sector clients, academics, experts and partner organisations. Before joining LSE Consulting, she spent nearly three years as a Project Officer in the Foundation Centre for Quantitative Research (FCEC, Santiago de Chile). She implemented different research projects requested by public organisms, NGOs and private entities. These projects covered various anti-smoking and gambling-related health policies, educational initiatives, and organisational change. She engaged with stakeholders from multiple sectors and worked with interdisciplinary research teams. After this experience, Francisca worked as an independent researcher collaborating with three educational research centres to collect and analyse data for programme and university projects, best practices in school improvement; headteachers training; and diagnostic assessments for pedagogy students. Overall, her research experience has aimed to inform future policy design and evaluation. Francisca has contributed to projects related to the political agency on the regional level, labour insurance schemes and how workers deal with health risks, political participation in youth, civic education initiatives, censorship in the film industry - all carried out in Chile - and participation in the labour market among women in Bangladesh. At LSE Consulting, she has collaborated with interdisciplinary teams conducting data analysis, writing and reporting findings to different audiences for projects in the UK and Europe. Francisca has contributed to the following publications: The Relation Between Different Zoonotic Pandemics and the Livestock Sector Authors:  Jeremy Brice, Rossella Soldi, Pablo Alarcón-López, Javier Guitian, Julian Drewe, Daniela Baeza-Breinbauer, Francisca Torres-Cortés and Katie Wheeler Date:  November 2021 Client:  European Parliament - DG Internal Policies Study on due diligence requirements through the supply chain Authors:  Lise Smit, Claire Bright, Robert McCorquodale, Matthias Bauer, Hanna Deringer, Daniela Baeza-Breinbauer, Francisca Torres-Cortés, Frank Alleweldt, Sendra Kara, Camille Salinier and Héctor Tejero Tobed Date:  February 2020 Client:  European Commission - DG for Justice and Consumers Francisca's research interests focus on access to higher education, the impact of policy on students' decision-making after post-secondary education, and equality in education in general. Broader areas of interest are gender inequalities, anti-racism and decolonisation. Her methods expertise involves quantitative data collection and analysis techniques and qualitative approaches. Francisca holds an MSc in Social Research Methods from LSE and is a Licenciate in Sociology from the University of Chile.