Catalin Dragomirescu Gaina joined FEPS in May 2016 as Senior Economist. Previously, he worked as an Economist at the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Italy for three years, mainly on topics related to labour economics. Before that, he was a Senior Economist at the National Bank of Romania for more than seven years, contributing to research activities related to monetary policy analysis, macro-economics and finance. Catalin received his MSc in Finance and Banking from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies in 2003, where he specialised in finance, macroeconomics and applied econometrics. Catalin has extensive experience in economic research and economic policy analysis. His research interests span across macroeconomics, international finance, labour economics and applied econometrics. He has recently published in some highly-ranked academic journals in the fields of economics and econometrics. At FEPS, Catalin contributed to economic policy analysis and oversees a portfolio of research projects run in collaboration with academia, foundations and other FEPS stakeholders.