Pascaline Descy is Head of Area Research and Policy Analysis at Cedefop, the European Centre for the development of vocational training. She manages a team of experts working in VET policy analysis, identification of skill needs in Europe and VET research.
Her career in Cedefop started in 1997, with a focus on VET research and developing comparable statistics on VET, lifelong learning and skills in Europe. Prior to joining Cedefop, she was a researcher at the University of Liège in Belgium, where she was involved in various action research and comparative education projects in the Department of experimental pedagogy.
Pascaline Descy holds a Master’s degree in education science from the University of Liège, Belgium.