Milena N.

Milena N. currently serves as the Aletta Jacobs Professor in the Economics of Well-being at the Faculty of Economics and Business - University of Groningen since March 2023, while also holding nonresident fellow positions at Bruegel and The Brookings Institution. Milena's prior academic roles include Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, and Research Associate at IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor. Milena served as Managing Editor for the Journal of Population Economics and completed a Ph.D. in International Development at the University of Maryland. Consulting experience includes a project for The World Bank on illicit financial flows in East Africa and research at The Urban Institute. Milena holds a Master of Public Policy from American University and a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in Economics from Gettysburg College.