Dr Romina BOARINI

Dr Romina Boarini is the Director of the OECD WISE (Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity) Centre, where she promotes the OECD’s position as a leading international institution in the area of wellbeing, inclusion, sustainability and equal opportunity, and contributes to strengthening OECD research and advice on the Beyond GDP Agenda; policies for wellbeing; inclusive growth and SDGs.

She was previously a Senior Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General and the Head of the Inclusive Growth Initiative, where she developed the OECD Framework for Action on Inclusive Growth and launched Business for Inclusive Growth, a coalition of 40 multinationals committed to fight inequalities.

Before joining the Office of the Secretary-General, Romina worked as Deputy Head of the Well-Being Division of the Statistics Directorate and the Head of the Well-Being and Progress Section, where she was responsible for OECD Better Life Initiative.

Before joining the OECD in 2005, Ms Boarini was a post-doctoral fellow in Sustainable Development (Chaire EDF-Ecole Polytechnique) and worked as a consultant to the French Ministry of Social Affairs. Ms Boarini, an Italian national, holds a PhD in Economics from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and her Research Interests include: Wellbeing, Poverty, Education and Behavioural Economics.

ABOUT THE OECD CENTRE ON WELL-BEING, INCLUSION, SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY (WISE)

The WISE Centre works to generate new evidence on these issues, as well as develop a new generation of tools and policy solutions to improve people’s wellbeing. WISE also aims to advise on policy responses to the urgent challenges posed by crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, and to help align these responses with long-term objectives, like the SDGs.

Learn more about WISE: www.oecd.org/wise

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