Alexander Hijzen

Alexander Hijzen is Senior Economist at the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He is currently leading the implementation of the new OECD Jobs Strategy, launched in 2018.

From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, where he contributed to the IMF's World Economic Outlook. Before joining the OECD, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Leverhulme Center for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP), at the University of Nottingham.

His research has been published in international academic journals such as The Economic Journal, The European Economic Review and The Journal of Human Resources. Alexander holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham and is a Dutch national.