Anna Horvath is a senior education policy analyst at the Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) in Brussels. She has coordinated and contributed to various reports of the Eurydice Network, which intend to facilitate European cooperation in education and the work of policymakers at both national and European levels. Anna has been working on comparative reports on European education systems in both school and higher education, and her main interests include learning mobility, the social dimension of higher education and educational inequalities.

Anna has coordinated the development and updating of the European Commission's Mobility Scoreboard in higher education, which provides the framework for monitoring progress made by European countries in creating a positive environment supporting learner mobility.

Anthony Fakhoury is a Project and Research Analyst currently working with UNDP's Knowledge Project. With over seven years of experience working with UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab States, Anthony has conducted extensive economic and statistical research on topics related to knowledge societies, education, technology, and future skills. He plays a key role in spearheading the Regional Skills Initiative, which focuses on providing future-proof job opportunities by upskilling and reskilling citizens in the Arab States region.

In addition to his work with the United Nations, Anthony also serves as a university lecturer for undergraduate and graduate economics courses at the Lebanese American University. He holds a BS in Economics and an MA in Applied Economics and has authored several publications.

Diego Begnozzi is a consultant at The European House - Ambrosetti in the Business & Policy Impact area. He manages projects aimed at measuring - and thus improving - the impact of companies on territories, supply chains and stakeholders, developing projects for the assessment of impacts of companies, sectors, public and private entities.

Moreover, Diego develops estimation methodologies using mathematical, statistical and econometric tools and is responsible for the unit focused on building composite indices.

Jolanta Reingarde PhD leads a programme on research and statistics at the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) - an EU agency based in Vilnius, Lithuania- since 2010. The development of the Gender Equality Index and annual progress reports on gender equality in selected policy areas in the EU are two major research areas of the programme.

She studied Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania), followed by a Ph.D on violence against women. Jolanta has wide experience researching gender equality policies in the EU and globally, measurements of gender equality, gender equality and economy, work-life balance.

Ilias Livanos is a Cedefop expert at the Department for VET and Skills. Ilias, amongst his other duties at Cedefop, is the leader of the Skills forecast and the European skills index. He is an economist by training, with a PhD in employment research from the University of Warwick, where he worked for several years prior to joining Cedefop.

His expertise is in labour economics, education economics, and industrial relations. Ilias has published articles in various top-ranking journals.

Michael Bratt leads the analytical work of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index by being responsible for the calculation and analysis of the country and city rankings.

Prior to his current role he was Consultant and Associate Economic Affairs Officer at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), working primarily on issues of trade and development related to least-developed countries and landlocked developing countries. Other past work experience includes consulting for the World Trade Organization and working as an analyst at the Swedish National Board of Trade, CUTS International, and Mintel International.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Geneva and a Master of International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute (University of Bern). 

Ms. Yanchun Zhang is Chief Statistician of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and leads the production of UNDP’s Human Development Index and other composite indices. She has twenty years of quantitative research experience on a wide range of economic and sustainable development topics, and published articles in refereed journals.

Prior to HDRO, she also worked at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Bank's Development Research Group and in academia.

She holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Economics from University of Virginia, U.S.A, and a B.A. degree in Economics with honors from Shanghai Fudan University, China.

Youlia Lozanova has been working at ITU for over 15 years. She has been involved in various areas of policy and regulation for the ICT sector and digital markets working with policy makers, regulators, academia and the broader regulatory community.

Youlia is leading ITU’s research and analysis on collaborative regulation for the digital transformation.

She is also the lead on policy and regulatory metrics, namely the ICT Regulatory Tracker and the G5 benchmark for fifth generation collaborative regulation, which allow to scope the maturity of regulatory frameworks and provide a roadmap to regulatory excellence and designing flexible, resilient and sustainable solutions for policy reform.