Mikołaj Herbst, PhD

Published on Monday, 09 June 2014 23:35

Leader of the Medium-term Analyses Team, holds a PhD in Economics, graduated from the University of Warsaw (1997) and the "Columbia Cooperative Program in Economics" jointly run by the University of Warsaw and Columbia University in New York (1997).

Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Centre for European Regional and Local Studies. He specializes in research in the economics of education, the study of businness cycle and regional and local development.

Scholar of the University of Trieste and the programme of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education - "Support for international mobility of researchers." In 2008-2009 he was a member of the Team of Strategic Advisors to the Prime Minister.

Leader and participant of research projects funded by the Committee for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Ministry of Regional Development, the Ministry of Education and the National Science Centre. Participant of international research projects organized by the OECD, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Bank. Consultant in education management systems, he worked in Poland, Ukraine, Montenegro and Bulgaria.

Member of the editorial board of the scientific quarterly "Studia Regionalne i Lokalne" ("Regional and Local Studies"). Member of the Polish section of the Regional Studies Association, a research group Economics and Sociology of Education in Poland (ESEP), and the network of Economics of Education in Europe (EENEE). Member of the programme board of the foundation School Leaders.