Francesco Figari

Francesco Figari is a full Professor of Public Finance at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Italy and a non-resident fellow at CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto, where he coordinates the Master's programme in Welfare: Theoretical Foundations and Data Analysis. He has been involved in developing EUROMOD since 2006, focusing particularly on labour supply modelling. He sits on the EUROMOD Scientific Advisory Board at the European Commission – JRC. His research focuses on analysing the redistributive effects of public policies, the behavioural impacts of policy changes and the resilience of welfare systems to economic crises across Europe. He has published work on poverty, taxation and European welfare systems in leading international journals.

Holly Sutherland is now emeritus Professor at the University of Essex. She was Director of EUROMOD until October 2018. She has over 30 years' experience designing, building and using such models — the UK model she helped develop in the mid-1980s was among the first anywhere — and has coordinated over 10 international EUROMOD-related projects, participating in many more. She has co-authored and edited five books on microsimulation modelling, and her research has been widely published in economics and social policy journals. She is passionate about making the power of tax-benefit microsimulation genuinely accessible to all, to inform policy debates at every level, and everywhere.