Anna Cristina D'ADDIO is an Economist by background with one PhD in Quantitative Economics (European Doctoral Program) from CORE and IRES at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), and a PhD in Public Economics from the University of Pavia (Italy). She is Senior Policy Analyst in the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report team at UNESCO where she leads the thematic work, the PEER project, and is the gender focal point. Prior to this position, Anna worked at the OECD for more than 10 years on a comprehensive list of issues with a particular emphasis on the role of policies.

Before that Anna was a research professor in micro-econometrics applied to labor market/education issues. She carried out research in several universities and research centers including the Center for Applied Econometrics (CAM), University of Copenhagen; the Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA), Catholic University of Leuven; the Department of Economics, University of Aarhus; the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), and IRES of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve.