Lucie Davoine is a policy officer in the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission, in the unit ‘Lifelong learning: contribution to the Lisbon process’. Her main areas of responsibilities include the development and follow-up of the ‘New Skills for New Jobs’ initiative, but also the animation of the European Expert Network on the Economics of education (EENEE) and the promotion of ‘Evidence-based Policy and Practice’ and initiatives to make the results of research understandable and accessible and to bring research to the attention of policy makers and practitioners.
Before joining the European Commission, Lucie Davoine was a researcher in labour economics at the ‘Centre d'études de l'emploi’ and at the Paris School of Economics. She published articles on job quality in Europe, active labour market policies and the economics of happiness. She graduated in economics at University Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2003 and in political sciences at the ‘Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris’ in 2002. She wrote a PhD thesis on job quality in Europe.