Lucie Cerna is Senior Analyst and Project Leader, and an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. At the OECD, she has worked on a variety of education topics, including the governance of education, trust, national skills strategies and the Education for Inclusive Societies project. Prior to coming to the OECD, she was a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, and an Assistant Professor in Global Challenges (Political Economy) at Leiden University. Lucie has published on migration, education and skills issues. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Luka Boeskens is a Policy Analyst. At the OECD, Luka has contributed to country review reports, conducted analyses on the funding of private education and coordinated thematic work on the organisation of school facilities, sectors and programmes. He has co-authored The Funding of School Education (2017), Responsive School Systems (2018) and Working and Learning Together (2019) reports. Luka holds a MSc in Sociology and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and was a visiting student at Dartmouth College.
Cecilia Mezzanotte is a Policy Analyst. At the OECD, she has focused on the rationale of inclusive education, the measurement of inclusion in education and in particular on the inclusion of students with special education needs. She contributed to country review reports and developed analyses in the field of equity and inclusion. Cecilia holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Economics and Management and a Master’s Degree in Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations from Bocconi University.
Samo Varsik is a Policy Analyst. Prior to joining the OECD, Samo worked as a senior analyst at the Education Policy Institute, an analytical unit under the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic, where he specialised in inclusive education policies, early childhood education and care, out-migration and quantitative analyses in an educational context. Samo was born in Slovakia and studied economics in Edinburgh and London.
Ides Nicaise is Professor Emeritus at KU Leuven, Belgium. He has a background in economics and works as a senior research manager at HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society). He has specialised in social policy, more precisely the relationships between education, labour market policy and social inclusion. At the Department of Education Sciences of his University, he taught the subjects “economics of education”, “lifelong learning and equal opportunities” and “education and society”. Besides his professional activities, he is chairing the Belgian Combat Poverty Service.