The people

Project director

Terry Ward is an economist and managing director of Alphametrics (UK) and director of research at Applica (Belgium). Research interests: employment and labour markets, social protection and social inclusion, income distribution, regional development.

Project administrator

Loredana Sementini is managing director of Applica. She is an experienced project manager and coordinator of international research projects and experts networks.

Project co-directors

Orsolya Lelkes is an economic policy analyst and research fellow at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna. Her research interests are welfare, income distribution, poverty, economics of happiness, social interactions.

Holly Sutherland is a research professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, UK. She coordinates EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU, and her research interests are in developing microsimulation as a tool for international comparative research, the distributional effects of social policies, and child poverty measurement and analysis.

István György Tóth is an economic sociologist and general director of TÁRKI Inc. He also lectures at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University of Budapest. Research interests: the economics and sociology of social policy, social security, poverty and income inequality.

Other authors and contributors

Francesco Figari is a senior research officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, UK. He works on EUROMOD development and his research interests are in fiscal microsimulation, labour supply modelling and the effects of public policies on poverty and deprivation.

Nicole Fondeville is a researcher at Applica specialised on employment and social issues. Before joining Applica in 2007, she has worked in DG Employment of the European Commission and she has been a research assistant at the University of Bordeaux (France). 

Katrin Gasior is research assistant at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna. Her research interests are welfare, pension policy and reforms; social inclusion.

Tamás Keller is a sociologist and researcher at TÁRKI. Fields of research: income distribution, attitudes towards inequalities and welfare. 

Chrysa Leventi is a PhD candidate at the Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of International and European Economics). Her research interests include pension issues, tax-benefit microsimulation modelling for policy analysis and tax evasion.

Horacio Levy is a research fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex. He works on the development  of EUROMOD and his research interests are the ditributive effect of public policies, international comparison of taxes and benefits, family policies and child poverty.

Manos Matsaganis is assistant professor of social and employment policy at the Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of International and European  Economics). His research interests include tax-benefit models, the economic analysis of public policy, and the political economy of welfare reform.

Márton Medgyesi is a sociologist and economist, researcher at TÁRKI and lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest. Fields of research: income distribution and poverty, economic decisions of households, private and public intergenerational transfers.

Erhan Ozdemir is a demographer and researcher at Applica specialising in migration, population and social issues. Before joining Applica in November 2008, he has been involved in national and regional qualitative and quantitative research and surveys in Turkey on demography, health and socio-economic development.

Alari Paulus is a senior research offi cer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, UK. He works on EUROMOD development and his research interests are in the distributional effects of tax-benefi t policies, optimal tax design and tax evasion.

Fadila Sanoussi is data analyst at Applica. Her interests are data management and statistical analysis of national and regional data on socio-economic issues of the EU countries.

Eva Sierminska is a research economist at CEPS/INSTEAD, in Luxembourg. Her current research focuses on wealth portfolios, cross-country and demographic differences in wealth and income distribution, inequality measurement and methodological issues in cross-country wealth analysis.

Péter Szivós is an economist and managing director of TÁRKI Inc. Research interests: poverty, income distribution, inequality, microsimulation.

Gerlinde Verbist is a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Policy (University of Antwerp, Belgium). She has a PhD in Applied Economics. Her main research interests include microsimulation modelling and applications, measurement of income inequality and redistribution, taxation, and the interaction between migration and the welfare state.

Eszter Zólyomi is a Researcher and Project Coordinator at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna. Her reserach interests are pension policy and reforms; social inclusion; poverty; social mobility.