Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Belgium
CEPS is an independent membership-driven organisation with more than 100 corporate members and a large number of central banks, diplomatic missions and international business organisations in its constituency.
CEPS’ core business is the conduct of policy research on European affairs and the broad dissemination of its findings through a regular flow of publications, public events and electronic commentary. It strives to bring new knowledge to the attention of decision-makers and to offer fresh insights into important public policy issues of the day. CEPS has amply demonstrated its ability to anticipate trends and to analyse policy questions well before they become topics of general discussion.
Since 1999, CEPS has coordinated the European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI) now comprising 22 institutes throughout the EU. CEPS has been and are involved in several projects – in some as the coordinator – with relevance to MOPACT. These include:
NEUJOBS (coordinator) on the future of the European labour market (FP7)
ANCIEN on the needs of long term care in EU (FP7)
AHEAD on ageing, health status and determinants of health expenditures (FP6)
AIM on the adequacy of old age income (FP6)
As well as the FP5 projects DEMWEL, AGIR and REVISER all related to ageing, health and/or welfare systems.
Key personnel involved in the project
Daniel Gros – Director CEPS
Miroslav Beblavy – Senior Associate Research Fellow
Mikkel Barslund – Research Fellow
Anna-Elisabeth Thum – Research Fellow
Ilaria Maselli – Researcher
Elisa Martellucci – project and research assistant
Short profile of all personnel and previous relevant experience
Daniel Gros is the director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. He holds a PhD form University of Chicago and has previously worked at the IMF and the European Commission, and has sat on advisory boards for the European Parliament and the French Prime Minister. His main area of expertise are European Monetary Union, Macroeconomic policy, Economics of transition to a market economy, Political economy of the Wider Europe, Public finance, Banking and financial markets. He is editor of Economie Internationale and editor of International Finance. He has published widely in international academic and policy oriented journals, and has authored numerous monographs and four books.
Miroslav Beblavy is a member of the Slovak Parliament, Senior Research Fellow at CEPS and an Associate Professor at the Comenius University in Bratislava. He is currently coordinating NEUJOBS – a large-scale FP7 project on the future of the European labour market. He leads research conducted by CEPS into the issue of future demand for higher education graduates and the relationship between labour market institutions and skills. He has published extensively on education policies. Between 2002 and 2006, he was the State Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family in Slovakia responsible for employment and welfare policies, but was also co-author of higher education reform proposals. He has consulted for numerous organisations including the EC, OECD, World Bank and DFID. MOPACT, 320333, 10 December 2012
Mikkel Barslund is a research fellow at CEPS where he is leading and collaborating on a number of projects. He is also coordinating the ENEPRI network of leading national policy research institutes, and has previously been involved in the INDICSER project (FP7). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Copenhagen and has previously worked as a senior economist in the Danish Economic Councils, in economic ministries in Denmark, and as a Research Fellow at KU Leuven. He is a skilled econometrician and economic modeller and has published in leading international journals and consulted for the World Bank and IFPRI.
Anna-Elisabeth Thum is currently a research fellow at CEPS and deputy coordinator of NEUJOBS, a CEPS-led large-scale FP7 project on the future of the European labour market. She is an economic analyst with a strong econometric and quantitative background. She has experience in policy analysis on various social and economic issues and academic experience in quantitative and applied studies. Between 2009 and 2011 she lectured at Institut Libre Marie Haps, UC Louvain. She has participated in other EC funded projects (INNODRIVE, SERVICEGAP and INDICSER) and held posts at OECD and the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER).
Ilaria Maselli is a researcher at CEPS. She started in 2007 and initially worked as research assistant for the Director, Daniel Gros, and collaborated with quantitative analysis on several projects. She is currently the Deputy- Coordinator of NEUJOBS, a large research project aimed at understanding how multiple transitions in the society, the economy and the environment will influence European labour markets in the next decade. Her research focuses in particular on the impact of technology, educational expansion and institutions on jobs.
Elisa Martellucci is currently a Research Assistant in the Economic and Social Welfare Policies unit of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and project assistant of the NEUJOBS project. Her main area of expertise are labour market and social policy. Before joining CEPS she was working in Motorola (EU affairs department) and in CISIS ( Interregional Centre for Information Technologies and Statistics) in Rome. She holds a master’s degree in political science from Luiss University in Rome.
Research Assistant – to be recruited