Oriana Bandiera
Oriana Bandiera, the Programme Director of the G²LM|LIC programme, is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, CEPR, BREAD, and IZA. She is co-editor of Econometrica and vice-president of the European Economic Association.
Her research focuses on how monetary incentives and social relationships interact to shape individual choices within organisations, how this shapes labour markets, the allocation of talent, and, ultimately, living standards. Her research has been awarded the IZA Young Labor Economist Prize (2008), the Carlo Alberto Medal (2011), the Ester Boserup Prize (2018), and the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2019). At the LSE she teaches the undergraduate Development Economics course, for which she won a Student Union Award in 2020.
Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, a Scientific Manager and Senior Research Associate at IZA, is the Deputy Program Coordinator of the G²LM|LIC Programme. She studied economics and social psychology at the Ruhr-University Bochum and the University of Lausanne. After her graduation with a Master of Science in Economics in 2009, she joined IZA as a Resident Research Affiliate and became a Research Associate in September 2013. She received her Ph.D. degree in May 2013 from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Annabelle is in charge of managing and supervising the different activities of G²LM|LIC concerning research, policy outreach, and capacity building. Her research interests include labor economics, migration, and subjective well-being.
Sven Kleinert
Sven Kleinert is the Senior Administrator of the IZA/DFID G²LM|LIC Programme. He studied German Business Law at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne and received his diploma in 2008. In 2010 he received his LL.M degree in International Economic Law from the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies.
In March 2011 Sven Kleinert joined IZA.
As Senior Manager for Project Administration and Legal Affairs, he is responsible for project management and general legal and contractual issues.
Viola Hartmann
Viola Hartmann serves as a Senior Logistics Coordinator within the G²LM|LIC program.
She studied Biology at Bonn University and received her diploma in 1999. At the same time, she qualified in Event Management and Public Relations. After her studies, she worked for different institutions in the field of Scientific Education, Event Management, and Public Relations in Germany and France. 2007 she founded an agency to work freelance in the same field. She joined IZA in the Summer of 2008.
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Lionel Antonio Muñoz Rosas
Lionel Antonio Muñoz Rosas holds a Bachelor´s degree in Economics (Politische Ökonomik) from the University of Heidelberg and is currently a Master’s Student in Economics at the University of Bonn. He joined IZA as a Student Assistant in December 2020 to support the G²LM|LIC team.
Revana Sharfuddin Ame
Revana Sharfuddin Ame received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from George Mason University in 2020 and is currently completing a Development Economics degree at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She joined IZA as a Student Assistant in May 2022 to support the G²LM|LIC team.
Rafael Resende
Rafael Resende holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from NOVA School of Business and Economics (2020) and is currently pursuing a Double Master’s Degree in Economics at Maastricht University and Université Catholique de Louvain. He joined IZA as a Student Assistant in September 2022 to support the G²LM|LIC team.
Advisory Board
The G²LM|LIC management is supported by an advisory board comprising a panel of six world-renowned researchers who advise the team on strategic issues related to the programme’s research focus and capacity-building initiatives.
Richard Blundell
Professor Sir Richard Blundell, CBE FBA holds the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London where he was appointed Professor of Economics in 1984. He is Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) IFS where he was been Research Director from 1986 until 2016. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of St.Gallen; Norwegian School of Economics NHH; University of Mannheim; Universita Della Svizzera; University of Bristol; and the University of Venice Ca’Foscari.