Daniela Oliva is a Sociologist. She has run the Training and Labour Policies Area at IRS since 1992, and since 1979 she has been active in research, consultancy, training in Master Degree programs and for public and private clients. She is past President of IRS (2010-2013). She is a member of the Associazione Italiana di Valutazione – AIV and she was a member of the Directorate Council (2004-2007). Main Areas of intervention: professional training, education, integrated training systems, labour policies, orientation, gender and disadvantaged population equal opportunity. On these themes, products and services which regard: ex-ante project selection systems; the monitoring and evaluation of project, program, policy, accreditation and quality systems; the strategic reorganization of service providers projects and/or the realisation of public policies; the theme of employability in the sphere of IC Equal (in particular, immigrants).
Daniela Oliva is also Director of Training, Labour, Community and Local Development Area
Daniela Mesini is an Economist and the Director of the Social and Health Services and Policies Area at IRS. Since 1997 she has done research on themes regarding Social and Health Policies, the Nonprofit Sector and the Labour Market. As an expert she has participated in various evaluation and monitoring groups for EU programs and interventions against poverty and social exclusion, including the I and the II national evaluation of the Minimum Income Scheme.
Daniela Mesini is also Director of Social Policies and Services, Welfare and Inclusion Area
A sociologist, she is responsible for IRS’ research line dedicated to interventions aimed at minors and families. She is an expert researcher in programming, planning and evaluation of policies and interventions in the social, socio-educational and socio-health sectors. Since 2021 she has been the regional contact (Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy) for the World Bank Group in sectoral assistance to the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies for the implementation of Citizenship Income. She is deputy director of LombardiaSociale.it and part of the editorial staff for the journal Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie.
Cecilia Guidetti is also Director of Social Policies and Services, Welfare and Inclusion Area
Flavia Pesce is a Sociologist and Director of the Training and Labour Policies Area. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Political Science and Sociology Department at the Università di Firenze. She is a member of EES European Evaluation Society and of AIV Italian Evaluation Society of which she was a member on the Directorate Council. She is an expert in Gender Equal Opportunity Policy and Community Planning.
Her main areas of interest are: evaluation of Gender Equal Opportunity Policies and Programs, evaluation of Training and Labour Policies and Programs, evaluation of Community Policies and Programs, analysis of the training demand in the Labour Market, planning monitoring, control and evaluation systems.
Flavia Pesce is also Area Director of Training, Labour, Community and Local Development Area
Emanuele Ranci Ortigosa is Emeritus President and Scientific Director of IRS, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Prospettive Sociali e Sanitarie and the series “Politiche Sociali” published by FrancoAngeli. Since 1971, he has been active in research, consultancy, training in the field of Social and Socio-sanitary Policies; the planning, organisation and evaluation of Social and Health Services; Social Expenditure; Policies Against Poverty; training executives and professional operators.
He taught Social Policy and Planning and Evaluation of Social Policies and Services at the Università degli Studi di Siena from 1982/83 to 1986/87 and currently teaches at the Università di Venezia, where he has been a Professor since 1995/96.
Emanuele Ranci Ortigosa is also Scientific Director of Social Policies and Services, Welfare and Inclusion Area
Ugo De Ambrogio is also Scientific Director of Social Policies and Services, Welfare and Inclusion Area
A Labour Economist, Manuela Samek Lodovici is the head of the Labour Market Area at IRS and a Professor of Public Economics at the Università Cattaneo (LIUC) in Castellanza and Labour Economics at the Università Cattolica in Milan. She is past President of IRS (2007-2010 period). Her main areas of research regard the comparative analysis of Labour Market Trends and Labour Regulation Systems, the evaluation of Labour and Equal Opportunity Policies, with emphasis on European Structural Funds, the analysis of the Medium-term Trends of Employment by Occupation Demand. On these aspects she has participated as an expert in numerous European networks and carried out consultancy for the European Commission and Local and National Public Administrations.
Manuela Samek Lodovici is also Director of The Labour, Social Inclusion and Development Area
Members’ names are presented in chronological order
Emanuele Ranci Ortigosa, Manuela Samek Lodovici, Ugo De Ambrogio, Alessandro Battistella, Sergio Pasquinelli, Daniela Oliva, Federica Origo, Monica Patrizio, Renata Semenza, Francesca Susani, Claudio Lucifora, Claudio Castegnaro, Francesco Di Ciò, Elena Ferrari, Cristiano Gori, Daniela Mesini, Flavia Pesce, Simona Rinaldi, Carla Dessi, Valentina Ghetti, Daria Broglio, Nicola Orlando, Nicoletta Torchio, Ariela Casartelli, Federica Picozzi, Riccardo Sartori, Daniela Loi, Francesca Merlini, Cristina Vasilescu, Carmen Amerise, Teresa Albanese, Stefania Rossi, Andrea Bagnulo, Glenda Cinotti, Eleonora Gnan, Serena Marianna Drufuca, Cecilia Guidetti, Elena Cadic, Giada Marcolungo, Francesca Pozzoli, Paola Apolloni, Silvia Castellazzi.
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