our team
Main Policy Areas: Tax policy, poverty and migration
Michael is a data scientist and applied microeconomist with 20 years of experience working on projects for the European Commission and the World Bank. He likes to get his hands dirty working with surveys and big data; the more observations, the better. Within the EU, Michael has analyzed the gaps in both personal income tax and VAT. Michael has also led the large-scale collection of price data to calculate purchasing power parities. At the global level, Michael has supported the analysis of the costs and benefits (including fiscal impact) of migration, the estimation of the distributional impact of climate change, and the assessment of the effects of social assistance reforms. He has carried out several poverty assessments, including the construction of poverty lines and prices indices.
Michael holds a PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill following an academic background in Mathematics.