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I am an economist and a civil servant. I have worked on a variety of topics, projects and policies.
Since 2024, I have been working as an Economic Analyst at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.
In the past, I have 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. Earlier in my career, I also worked at NERA Economic Consulting, where I focused on antitrust in the U.S. health care industry, and in the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Department.
I have done quite a bit of teaching, and even won some awards for it. I was the Head of Economics at UWC Adriatic in Duino, Italy - an international boarding school, which I had also attended as a student in my late teens. In addition, I have 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.
To the extent I have any claim to fame, it may be some statistical software I have written. I am the author of 'stargazer,' a widely used R package that produces beautiful regression tables. I have also written some other packages that implement methods such as the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition or extreme bounds analysis.
I hold 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, I 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.
I speak a bunch of European languages, with varying levels of proficiency.