Anna IARA
has been a staff member of the European Commission since 2009, where she worked on different aspects of economic policy in the Directorates-General for Economics and Finance and Taxation and Customs Union, and the Secretariat-General respectively. Earlier she was a research economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and the Center for European Integration Studies (Bonn). Anna holds a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Bonn, having studied economics and geography in Bonn and Budapest (Central European University). Her publications cover issues of public finance, European integration, labour markets and migration, regional economics, and economics of transition.