Teresa Munzi, LIS
Teresa Munzi is Director of Operations at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) in Luxembourg, where she oversees the operational development and international partnerships of one of the world’s leading cross-national data infrastructures on income, wealth, and consumption. She joined LIS in 2002 and has since been involved in the harmonisation, dissemination, and comparative use of microdata for research on inequality, poverty, labour markets, and welfare systems. Her recent work has focused on the integration of income, wealth, and consumption data, the development of secure and distributed data-access infrastructures, and the future harmonisation of administrative data for comparative research. Before joining LIS, she worked as an economist at the European Commission (Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Office of the Chief Economist), and the UK Department for Education and Employment. She is actively involved in international collaborations and training activities related to comparative inequality research and has contributed tonumerous initiatives aimed at strengthening data access, harmonisation standards, and research capacity across countries. Her interests include comparative welfare analysis, the measurement of inequality and well-being, gender differences in employment and earnings, and the methodological challenges of cross-country microdata harmonisation. She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Rome and an MSc from the London School of Economics.