Role
Head of Education Policy for the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) at UNESCO.
Bio
Anna Cristina D'Addio graduated in Economics and Business from the University of Genoa and obtained a Master's degree in Quantitative Economics in Leuven, subsequently obtaining doctorates in Public Economics from the University of Pavia and in Quantitative Economics from the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (as part of the European doctoral program that brings together the CORE of the Université Catholique de Louvain, the London School of Economics, the EHESS in Paris, the University of Bonn and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona).
She has conducted research and taught at several international academic centers (including CREST in Paris, the universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen in Denmark, and the University of Leuven in Belgium). From 2004 to 2017, she worked at the OECD on socio-economic and policy issues, and since 2017, she has been Head of Education Policy for the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) at UNESCO. She leads the PEER country profiles project and is the gender focal point in her team.
Her research and professional activity focuses on income inequality, poverty, education, social protection systems, pensions, and gender.