Nina Smith, the second new member of our group of senior experts, is Professor at the School of Economics and Management at the University of Aarhus. From 2007-2009, she acted as the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the University of Aarhus. She has been chairman of the board of the Danish Independent Research Councils, member of the Danish Social Science Research Council, and served as member or chairman of a number of boards of directors of national research institutes and private firms. She has been chairman of the Danish Economic Council and member of several government commissions and councils. In particular, since 2006 she is Member of the Chairmanship of the Council for Evaluation and Quality Development in Danish Schools. Smith is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), member of the scientific advisory board of the Rheinisch Westfälisches Wirtschaftsinstitut (RWI) in Essen, member of several Danish government commissions and member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. She is former Research Director of the Danish Centre for Research in Integration, Education, Qualifications and Marginalization (CIM, 1999-2006) and served as a Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. She acted as an Associate editor of Labour Economics (2002-2006) and currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Danish Economic Association and the Journal of the Academy of the Social Sciences. Her main research interests are intergenerational mobility and educational attainment, integration of immigrants into the labour market and gender issues like family-friendly policies and women’s career or women in top management and firm performance. As such, she works on many important questions in the area of economics of education in which the network has lacked substantial expertise so far. Smith is widely published in economic journals such as the European Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, and the Southern Economic Journal, but also in other social sciences disciplines like the European Sociological Review. Her expertise goes far beyond pure economic perspectives and includes many other relevant fields, making her a multidisciplinary expert with respect to the education and training sector. For the network, Nina Smith will especially cover Denmark and Iceland.
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