Solvay Public Policy House (SPPH) is a recent initiative from the University of Brussels (ULB). It has been created to provide innovative advice to policymakers and facilitate policy actions for complex times, raising awareness of long-term objectives while promoting rapid action. Some of the fields covered by their experts include social mobility, globalization, public governance, competition policy, digitalization, the energy transition, and healthcare. In terms of policy-oriented research, Solvay Public Policy House is home to multiple research centers which together cover a wide span of expertise. The team of researchers brings an educational mix in various disciplines (e.g., economics, political sciences, management, and public policies), as well as offering training programs.

The House’s research is always evidence-based using tailored techniques for each research project. The SPPH specializes in using multi-method approaches and multi-disciplinary teams from different departments. We pride ourselves on delivering work of the highest quality and standard, providing independent and unbiased analysis and demonstrating academic rigor and years of insight.

The SPPH shares the EU values of inclusion, tolerance, justice, solidarity, non-discrimination and liberty and the ULB values of free inquiry, the primacy of democracy, and concern for restoring our planet’s resilience.

Laura Juarez holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of expertise are Labor Economics, Public Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics. Her work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, and the World Bank Economic Review. She worked as a researcher at the Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE-ITAM) in Mexico City from 2006 to 2012, and later at the Economic Research department of Banco de Mexico, the Mexican Central Bank, from 2013 to 2017. Currently, she is a professor of Economics at El Colegio de México, and an active member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

Jaime Sempere Campello holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute. His areas of expertise are Public Economics, Competition Policy, Telecommunications regulation, Banking regulation, and Fisheries management. His work was published in the Economic Journal, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Economic Theory, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Marine Policy. He regularly visits the Instituto de Análisis Económico (Barcelona) and the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) as a Marie Curie researcher. Jaime joined El Colegio de México in 1992 as an Economics Professor and is also an active member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.