Lara works as a senior researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University, Italy (2012). From 2012 to 2014 she worked as a senior research fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and from 2017 to 2022 as research assistant professor at the Institute of Economic Sciences, Serbia. Her research covers topics related to human capital, labour economics and family economics.

Dubravko is a Senior Adviser at the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS. He leads outreach efforts to central banks, contributes to the BIS analysis of the global economy, and acts as Secretary to the Group of Governors from Small Open Economies. Before joining the BIS in 1999, Dubravko worked in the Fiscal Affairs, European and Asian Departments of the IMF (1990-99), and the Economics Institute Zagreb (1982-89). He studied economics at the University of Pittsburgh (PhD, 1990), University of Minnesota (MA, 1986) and University of Zagreb (BA, 1981).

Harry is the Senior Adviser, Education, at the World Bank. He specializes in the economics of education, especially school-based management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships. Previously, he worked in the Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia. He managed education teams in Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, and the Global Unit. He led lending operations and analytical work programs in Latin America. He co-led the development of the Harmonized Learning Outcomes database, part of the Human Capital Index, published in Nature. He has studied and worked extensively on the socioeconomic status of Indigenous Peoples. He has many publications in the academic and policy literature, with more than 50 journal articles. He previously worked as an economist at the Economic Council of Canada. Mr. Patrinos received a doctorate from the University of Sussex.

Martina is a Research Associate at the Institute of Public Finance and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science within the Department of Mathematics. She obtained her PhD at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business. Her research focuses on public sector economics and social policy, with a particular emphasis on tax-benefit microsimulation, tax-benefit policies, family economics, poverty, and income inequality.

Sunčica is a Professor of Applied Econometrics at the University of Antwerp. She holds affiliations with the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Bath. She is a Research Fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Her research interests are in the fields of applied econometrics and labour economics, focussing on crime, education, gender, discrimination and pro-social behaviour. She serves the community as a secretary of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE). She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the VU University Amsterdam.

Felix is a professor of Public Economics at the Europa-University Viadrina and a researcher at the DIW Berlin. He is also associated with the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, IZA and CESifo. Felix obtained his PhD at the London School of Economics. He is interested in the causes and consequences of social and spatial inequalities. Current research areas include: Economics of education, Labour supply and retirement and Gender inequalities in market and non-market work.