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Iv¨¢n Torre is economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank. His work focuses on inequality, human development, and political economy. Prior to joining the World Bank he worked as consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. He has a bachelor¡¯s degree in economics from Universidad de Buenos Aires and holds a PhD in economics from Sciences Po, Paris

Daniel Garrote Sanchez is a consultant in the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice of the World Bank. He carries out analytical work on the drivers and impact of labor migration and forced displacement in sending and receiving countries, return migration, and on the asymmetric impact of COVID on employment based on the task content of jobs and fiscal policy. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a senior researcher for the Lebanese Center of Policy Studies carrying out field work on refugees¡¯ integration, evaluated vocational training programs as a consultant for the Ministry of Labor of Saudi Arabia, and analyzed macroeconomic and labor policy as an economist at the Central Bank of Spain.

Laurent Bossavie is a labor economist in the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice of the World Bank, currently focusing on Europe and Central Asia region and South Asia. His main research areas are applied microeconomics, labor economics, and the economics of migration. His work studies the causal effects of labor and migration policies on workers¡¯ outcomes in both high-income and developing countries. His research on these topics has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals in labor economics and as World Bank analytical reports. He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Mauro Testaverde is a senior economist in the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice of the World Bank. Mauro¡¯s work focuses on labor mobility, human capital development, and the interaction of education, human resource management, and labor market policies. Mauro¡¯s research on these topics has been published in economic journals including the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and the World Bank Economic Review. Before joining the World Bank, Mauro was part of the migration research team at the University of Southampton (U.K.) where he earned a PhD in Economics and an MA in Econometrics.