Informing European Policy

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For more than two decades, RAND Europe has helped inform European policymaking through evidence-based insights in a number of key areas, including migration; defence, security & counter violent extremism (CVE); education & family policy; health & science; economics; and crime & illicit drugs.

With an active office based in Brussels, our work helps to shape policy and support decision making within the European Union and individual member states, providing the facts, figures and insights that policymakers and governments need to address the important issues.

Migration

Defence, Security & CVE

Education & Family Policy

Health & Science

Economics

Crime & Illicit Drugs

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Featured Researchers

Stijn Hoorens

Office Director, RAND Europe Brussels, Senior Research Leader

Stijn Hoorens is the director of RAND's Brussels Office and a senior research leader at RAND Europe. He has extensive experience in designing and leading policy studies at RAND for a range of international clients in the private and public sector. His research interests are broad, but most of…

Axelle Devaux

Research Leader

Axelle Devaux is a research leader at RAND Europe and deputy head of the RAND Europe Brussels office. Her research focuses on education, democratic participation and social exclusion. Axelle's recent research include Truth Decay in Europe (2022), a report which is part of the Countering Truth…

Joanna Hofman

Associate Director

Joanna Hofman (she/her) is associate director at RAND Europe conducting research in the fields of employment and social policy. She specialises in process and impact evaluations drawing on various research designs (from experimental to mixed methods) and approaches (e.g. theory-based, realist…

Marco Hafner

Senior Economist

Marco Hafner is a senior economist and research leader at RAND Europe working on employment, education and social policy research. He conducted doctoral studies in economics and applied econometrics and holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Zurich.

Emma Disley

Research Group Director, Home Affairs and Social Policy, RAND Europe

Emma Disley is director of the Home Affairs and Social Policy programme at RAND Europe. Her research interests include policing and EU law enforcement cooperation, drugs and illicit markets, criminal justice and offending, and serious and organised crime.