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Marek Hlavac, MPP, Ph.D. is a labour and political economist, civil servant and economics educator. Since 2024, he has been working as an Economic Analyst at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. His work and research have focused primarily on labor economics, and the political economy of redistribution. Dr. Hlavac's popular writings and op-ed commentaries have appeared in a variety of Slovak media outlets. In 2024, he was one of three finalists for the Civil Servant Act of the Year award for his discovery and analysis of shortcomings in Slovakia's official GDP statistics at purchasing power parity.
Dr. Hlavac has taught microeconomics to Mid-Career Master in Public Administration students at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as an undergraduate seminar on the Nobel Prize-Winning Contributions to Economics in Harvard's Economics Department, among other courses. He is a five-time recipient of the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, and has also been awarded the Harvard Kennedy School Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. With Harry J. Holzer, a former Chief Economist at the United States Department of Labor, Dr. Hlavac is the author of analyses of historical and recent labor market developments in the United States. In addition, he is the author of 'stargazer,' a widely used package for the R statistical programming language that produces publication-quality regression tables.
In the past, Dr. Hlavac has worked as a Senior Analyst at the Social Policy Institute of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava, Slovakia, and as Economics Teacher and Residence Tutor at UWC Adriatic in Duino, Italy - an international boarding school devoted to the promotion of peace and international understanding. He has also worked as a research assistant in the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Department, and as a Research Analyst at NERA Economic Consulting, where he focused on antitrust cases and litigation in the health care industry. He has also collaborated with the Institute for Financial Policy, the main analytical unit of the Slovak Ministry of Finance, where he co-authored a study of the country's brain drain problem.
He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University. At Princeton University, he was awarded the Halbert White’72 Prize in Economics for the most outstanding economics student, as well as an award for the best senior thesis.