Tommaso Agasisti

Professor of Public Management at Politecnico di Milano. He is the co-director of the Master in School Management (Master MES) and of the Master in Managing digital innovation in schools (Master MIDIS) at MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business, where he serves as Associate Dean for International Relations. His research interests deal with performance evaluation of public organizations, with a special attention to schools, universities and local governments. He is the Associate Editor of the journal Higher Education Quarterly, and Director of the journal Dirigenti Scuola.

Annamaria Ajello

Full Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the University of Rome Sapienza. She studied the problems related to the acquisition of social and, in particular, economic knowledge. She has worked in collaboration with several public bodies (Province of Rome, Autonomous Province of Trento, Ministry of Education) where she was in charge for managing selection and training activities. She is currently President of INVALSI.

Tito Boeri

Professor of Economics at Bocconi University in Milan (where he was also Vice Rector for Research until autumn 2014) and Senior Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (where he was Centennial Professor). He was senior economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Commission, the International Labor Office as well as the Italian government. From March 2015 to February 2019 he held the position of President of the National Institute of Social Security (INPS). He is Scientific Advisor of the Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation (www.frdb.org) of which he has been Director since its establishment in 1998. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association and of the European Association of Labor Economists. He is also a research fellow of the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER Bocconi), of the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), of the Center for Economic Performance of London, of the IGA (Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) of Bonn and of Netspar (Network for the Study of Pension and Retirement) of Tillburg. He was a columnist for Sole24ore, La Stampa and La Repubblica and has collaborated with foreign newspapers such as the Financial Times and Le Monde. He is one of the founders of the economic information site www.lavoce.info and the federated site in English www.voxeu.org. He is scientific director of the Trento Festival of Economics.

Enrico Giovannini

Daniel Muijs

Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation at Ofsted. Prior to his current role, Daniel was Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, and Associate Dean Research and Enterprise in the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences. He also previously worked as Professor of Pedagogy and Teacher Development at the University of Manchester, Professor of School Leadership and Management at the University of Newcastle and as senior lecturer in quantitative research methods at Warwick Institute of Education. He is an acknowledged expert in the fields of Educational and Teacher Effectiveness and quantitative research methods and has published widely in these areas. He is co-editor of the journal 'School Effectiveness and School Improvement', and has held key advisory posts in a range of academic and professional organisations, including the executive council of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction and the Questionnaire Expert Group for the OECD TALIS survey. Daniel holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), an MSc in Managerial Economics (Catholic University of Leuven) and a BA in Communication Sciences (Catholic University of Leuven).

Emmanuele Pavolini

Full Professor in Economic Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Macerata (Italy). He is a Member of the board of ESPAnet (European Social Policy Network) and co-chair of the board of Italian ESPAnet. He published articles on various journal, in Italian and English, on the welfare systems with specific attention to health care, family policies, occupational welfare, and studies, from a comparative perspective, on the Italian and Southern European welfare models. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.

Roberto Ricci

Research Director at INVALSI where he has been responsible for national tests since 2008 and he is the coordinator of the research area. After obtaining a PhD in statistical methodology for scientific research, he has worked for over twenty years in the field of measurement of learning through standardized tests. He is a member of the Governing Boards of PISA and TALIS, and he is a member of the General Assembly of the IEA. In recent years, he has been involved in the national implementation of important evaluation tools in schools, such as the measurement of the school effect, the so-called added value, and the definition of the diachronic-longitudinal change of learning levels. Recently, he has been involved in the transition to computer-based testing (CBT) of the INVALSI tests, also in an adaptive perspective at the individual level (multistage adaptive testing). He is a trainer at schools to foster a constructive dialogue on the issues of external evaluation. He is the author of many informative and technical-methodological articles on topics related to large-scale standardized measurement.

Leslie Rutkowski

Associate Professor of Inquiry Methodology at Indiana University. Leslie's research is in the area of international large-scale assessment. Her interests include latent variable models and examining methods for comparing heterogeneous populations in international surveys. Leslie currently serves as associate editor for the Springer journal Large-scale Assessments in Education and as co-executive editor for the Springer book series, IEA Research for Education. She is also the chair of the PISA Technical Advisory Group and the US NAEP Questionnaire Standing Committee.

Andres Sandoval Hernandez

Currently Reader in Educational Research at the University of Bath in the UK. Previously, he worked as Head of the Research and Analysis unit at the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in Germany and held various academic positions at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) and the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (both in Mexico). Over tha last few years, he has also collaborated with or consulted for the ministries of education of several countries and various international organisations including the World Bank, OECD, UNESCO and UNICEF. His research interests include comparative analysis of education systems using large-scale assessment data with a focus on educational inequalities and civic education.

Valeria Fabretti

Researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy) and teacher of Sociology at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Since 2019 she is a research consultant for Save the Children, Italy. In this context she works as a senior researcher for the Horizon 2020 IMMERSE project, which focuses on the social and educational integration of migrant and refugee children in Italy and Europe. She was a research fellow at the Documentation Center on Postecular Societies (CSPS) of the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' and by the Department of Social and Economic Sciences of the University of Rome 'Sapienza', where she previously obtained her PhD in Sociology (2009). Her studies and empirical researches concern the forms of coexistence and pluralism within public institutions and urban space, with particular attention to the management of cultural and religious diversities, to the expressions of intolerance and hatred towards minorities and to the intercultural education.

Christian Morabito

Senior researcher at Save the Children, Italy since 2014, where he developed the Educational Poverty Index which goal is to measure the educational deprivation of minors in Italy. During his career he has collaborated with UNDP, UNESCO, the European Commission and the World Bank, in particular in the management of cooperation and research programs in the field of poverty reduction and education in Europe and in sub-Saharan Africa. His main areas of specialization are: inequalities, in particular the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage, their measurement and public policies in the social and educational fields aimed at contrasting them.

Anna Ceci

Economist, senior expert in quantitative economic analysis, currently deals with the monitoring and evaluation of territorial public policies. Since 2000 she has been a researcher at the National Institute of Statistics, where until 2008 she coordinated the surveys on public and private non-profit institutions scientific research.
Since September 2016 she’s a member of the Evaluation and Analysis Unit for programming of the Department for cohesion policies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, where she deals with methodological aspects concerning the use of data, construction of territorial statistical indicators and databases for the planning and evaluation of territorial public policies and coordinates the activities of methodological supervision on the implementation of projects on statistical measurement under the National Operational Program for Governance and Institutional Capacity 2014-2020.
From 2012 to 2016 she coordinated, within the Public Investment Assessment Unit (Uval) of the Ministry of Economic Development, the activities related to the definition of the result indicators set of the 2014-2020 Partnership Agreement, the activities methods for the implementation and publication of policy indicators at the territorial level and she actively participated in the “OpenCoesione” working group. From 2008 to 2011 she was a member of the technical secretariat of the Minister for Public Administration and Innovation, where she coordinated the design and implementation of the system for detecting sick leave of public employees and actively supported the head of the Department for digitization of the public administration and technological innovation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. She published essays in Italian and English on the subject of the Italian economy, the labour market, the South and the measurement of public policy results.

Sabrina Lucatelli

Sabrina Lucatelli is High Level Expert working in the field of territorial policies in favour of low population density areas, dealing with both development issues and services reorganizations at both International and National/Local leve. At present she is Senior Expert at the Evaluation Unit of the Prime Minister Office. She has been in charge of The Inners Areas Strategy for the Prime Ministry Office of Italy: a special Action to stop population decrease in small municipalities and mountain areas. She is Italian Delegate, and Vice Secretary of the TDCP/Rural Areas. She has previously been at OECD as economist for the Directorate for Food Agriculture and Fisheries and the Economics Department, and at the European Commission, working in both Regional Policy Directorate and the Development Agency, in Brussels. She graduated from Rome University and undertook a Master of Science degree in Agriculture Economics at the Catholic University of Milan and a High Diploma in Rural Development at the University College Cork. She has been implementing important researches and evaluation activities trying to assess how the Rural Development Policy and the Regional Policy are impacting on rural areas in Italy, Europe and OECD Countries. Her works include books, papers and articles on relationships between agriculture and a region broader economics; rural-urban linkages; local development and basic services provision in rural areas. She is high level piano student (pre academic level).