Dr. Alessio J. G. Brown

by Admin | Apr 13, 2013 | Members

Dr. Alessio J. G. Brown is currently executive director of c(GES) since September 2007, and is visiting researcher at Kiel Institute for the World Economy since January 2011. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on employment incentives and employment policies.

Between 2004 and 2010, he was economist at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He was Head of the Research Area Reforming the Welfare Society from 2008 to 2010. Between 2007 to 2010, he was  the senior advisor to the President and  Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Dr. Brown is known for his expertise in reforming the welfare society and labour economics. He has published many articles on employment policies, most recently “Comparing the effectiveness of employement subsidies” (2011), and many more in leading journals such as IZA Discussion Paper, Kiel Working Paper, European Journal of Political Economy.

Dr. Brown was born in Rome, Italy, hold Ph.D in Quantitative Economics at  the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel in 2009; Diploma in Business Administration at University of Passau (2003); Bachelor of Commerce at University College Dublin (1999).

Ulrik Haagerup

by Admin | Apr 13, 2013 | Members

Ulrik Haagerup has been Head of News for the National Danish Broadcasting Corporation since 2007. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of NORDJYSKE Media as it became a world leader in cross-media publishing. Before that, he was Editor-in-Chief at Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, the country’s largest daily newspaper,

Haagerup is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington D.C. In 1990, he won the Cavling Prize, the Danish equivalent of the American Pulitzer Prize, for his investigation into a flamboyant developer and his transactions with a large Danish mortgage institution

He has conducted major investigations on the Danish Cancer Society and political parties. He serves on the European Journalism Center’s Board of Advisors. Haagerup was a Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University in 1992