Andrea Blasco
Policy Analyst at European Commission
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolAndrea Blasco is a policy analyst at the European Commission with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of economics, research and innovation policy. Trained as an economist with a PhD from the University of Bologna and advanced study across Toulouse, Essex and the European University Institute, Andrea brings rigorous empirical methods to policy design. Her background includes postdoctoral research at Harvard and London Business School and research at the Broad Institute, giving her deep experience translating academic insights into practical policy recommendations. She combines crowd-sourcing and innovation science techniques from her work with Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) with hands-on regulatory and industrial policy work in Brussels. Colleagues describe her as a “crowd sorcerer”—adept at mobilizing diverse expertise and data to surface unconventional solutions. That blend of elite research pedigree and real-world policy impact makes her especially effective at shaping evidence-based industrial and innovation strategies.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting student, Visiting student at University of EssexVisiting Ph.D. student, Visiting Ph.D. student at European University InstituteB.A, Economics, B.A, Economics at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico IIPhD, Economics, PhD, Economics at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaM.A, Economics and Finance, M.A, Economics and Finance at Toulouse School of Economics
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mrblasco/genderNamesITA
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
mrblasco/stableRoommateMatching
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 9 months
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