In early May, the European Commission will release its EU Anti-Poverty Strategy, an historic step toward encouraging European nations to reduce poverty and social exclusion. During this version of the INET Oxford Inequality Working Group, Sonia Vila Nuñez of the European Commission will present an overview of the Anti-Poverty Strategy. Afterward, two experts in European social policy – Bea Cantillon and Amílcar Moreira – will join Vila Nuñez for a discussion of the strategy.
Professor Zachary Parolin will chair this event. Registration is required.
About the Speakers
Sonia Vila Nuñez is Cabinet Expert at the European Commission. Her portfolio responsibilities include: Strategic advice; Coordination Preparedness; European Pillar of Social Rights; Social policies, child guarantee; Social protection; Inclusion in the labour market; Antipoverty strategy; Relations with SPC; Foresight; European Skills High Level Board; and Inter-generational fairness. Her responsibilities outside the portfolio include: Civil protection and humanitarian aid; and Financial Services for pensions and capital topics. She is the country coordinator for Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands.
Bea Cantillon is Professor Emeritus with Assignment at the University of Antwerp.
Amílcar Moreira is an Assistant Professor at the Lisbon School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon. He is also a Researcher, and Member of the Board, of SOCIUS, Research Centre in Economic and Organizational Sociology, and a member of the EUROMOD - Portugal team. Previously, he held appointments at Trinity College Dublin and OsloMet. He specialises in comparative social policy, ageing, welfare-to-work policies and microsimulation, and has published books with international publishers such as Oxford University Press or Policy Press and articles in international peer-reviewed journals - such as Social Policy & Administration, European Journal of Social Security, Journal of Population Ageing and the European Journal of Ageing.