Christian van Stolk

Biography

Christian van Stolk is the associate director of the Employment, Education, and Social Policy team at RAND Europe. He has worked extensively on social and employment policies. He has led studies on active age management in the workplace for the European Foundation; employment priorities until the year 2020 for the European Commission (DG EMPL); and a major project on health and well-being at work for the Department of Health in the United Kingdom. Van Stolk was also lead author on the INSPIRE project for DG EMPL, looking at the future of social policy and protection in Europe. In 2011, he completed a study analysing the first cross-European survey on health and safety in the workplace (ESENER) conducted by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). He was project leader for a study into the future of the Dutch pension systems for the ABP, the second largest pension fund in the world.

He has undertaken reports on human capital development for the OECD, the World Bank, and the UK government. For the World Bank he advises on how to improve the delivery of social protection programmes. In the UK, Van Stolk has led several large studies for the National Audit Office. In related work, he has led ex-ante and ex-post evaluations for the European Commission over the last five years, including work with DG SANCO and DG EMPL. Van Stolk holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.