Teresa Munzi has a background in economics. She earned a degree in Economics from the University of Rome and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. Before coming to work at LIS in 2002, she served as an economist at the Economics Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels, at the Chief Economist Office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Investment in London, and at the UK Department for Education and Employment. At LIS, Teresa is mainly responsible for coordinating the work of LIS’ data team; in that role, she develops methodological guidelines, oversees harmonisation, and supports the data team in its daily tasks.

She also carries out research using the LIS data. Her research interests include the comparative study of welfare systems and their impact on poverty, inequality, and family well-being; and gender differences in employment and earnings.

Andrej obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture. His main research interests are household financial decision-making and financial literacy, consumer behavior (predominantly food demand), survey data, and applied microeconometrics.

Prior to joining LIS, he worked as a researcher at the National Bank of Slovakia, where his main task was contribution to the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. He also held a short-term visiting research positions at the Austrian Central Bank, Middlesex University London, and the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance (KU Leuven).

Jörg is an economic sociologist. In May 2016, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Pension Systems and Income Inequality among the Elderly in Europe at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Before joining the LIS data team in 2011, he worked as a Research Associate in a research project on governance of supplementary pension systems across Europe (GOSPE).

Heba holds a master’s degree in Biostatistics and Demography on the topic of The Development of the Multidimensional Poverty Indices from the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research at Cairo University, Egypt.

Before joining the LIS data team, she worked as a Senior Statistician at the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Egypt and as Individual Consultant for the UNDP Regional Centre for the Arab States in Cairo.

Piotr Paradowski is a political economist. He has comprehensive knowledge of quantitative social science methods, including panel data analysis, survival analysis, multilevel models, and categorical and limited dependent variables models. At LIS, he serves as a member of the data staff; he also conducts research using the LIS data.

Piotr conducts interdisciplinary research with the focus on income and wealth distributions as they relate to economic inequality, welfare state politics, and voting behaviour.

Carmen is a social policy analyst specialised in labour market. She holds a PhD from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Faculty of Social Sciences, Methodology and Statistics department and has a background in comparative social policy (MA in International Social Policy Analysis from Leuven University, Belgium), public policy and governance as well as political sciences.

Her research is focusing on labour market participation from a gender perspective, institutional, life course and cultural determinants of the labour market participation in later life and early retirement from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

Janet Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY) in the United States. She has held various positions at LIS for over twenty-five years, and has served as Director from 2006 to 2016. She is currently the director of the Stone Center and of the US Office of LIS at The Graduate Center of CUNY. Her numerous articles have been published in several journals, including American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Journal of European Social Policy, Feminist Economics, and Monthly Labor Review.