Professor of Department of Social and Psychological Studies, Karlstad University. Director, Centre for research on the mental health and life circumstances of children and youth, CBU, https://www.kau.se/en/cbu

Thanasis Stengos is Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada since 1984 and a University Research Chair between 2004 and 2019. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the London School of Economics in 1979 and 1980 respectively and his PhD from Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario in 1984. He has held visiting positions at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, the University of Cyprus, the University of Bologna at Rimini and the European University Institute in Florence as a Jean Monnet Fellow. He is serving at the executive of the Canadian Econometric Study Group and he is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, Journal of Economic Asymmetries, the co-editor of the Review of Economic Analysis and the editor in Chief of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Peichl is Director of the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys, Professor of Economics, esp. Macroeconomics and Public Finance, at the University of Munich(LMU), as well as and Head of the LMU-ifo Economics & Business Data Center (EBDC). He has been involved in various research projects conducted on behalf of national ministries, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Word Bank, and the OECD, among others. His current research interests include (empirical) public economics, labor economics, and welfare economics with particular reference to policy reforms and their empirical evaluation and the analysis of income distributions. Peichl has published extensively in international academic journals (such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the European Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Human Resources, among others).

Currently employed at the Section UNESCO of the Swiss FDFA's UN Division, where one of the programmatic areas I'm involved is the MOST programme. The question of income stratification (internal/domestic and international) is of great interest to me. During my Masters, I conducted extensive research on questions related income inequality in advanced economies and potential mitigating policies.