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Barbara Sak

Senior economic researcher Barbara Sak is a Secretary General of CIRIEC-Belgium, the Belgian Section of CIRIEC (International Centre of Information and Research on Public, Social and Cooperative Economy). She is on CIRIEC's payroll for some 30 years. She has contributed to and co-directed several national and international inter-disciplinary researches and projects (grouping up to 25-30 researchers) in the field of public enterprises and services of general and collective interest, e.g. transport, energy, local public services, housing, health, social services.

Her main field of expertise consists in public policy in those fields, including the European Community legislation and legal framework impacting services of general (economic) interest and the financing of public service missions/obligations.

She particularly follows issues regarding regulation, provision and organisation modes, financing, but also evaluation and impact assessment of such services, notably with respect to the various types of providers, especially those stemming from the public sector and the so-called third sector or social economy (namely, cooperatives, mutual associations, foundations, not-for-profit organisations).

More recently, she focuses on transdisciplinary approaches of impact measurement and achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, for instance through socially responsible public procurement or work integration social enterprises.

Further, she has a good knowledge of policy issues at stake at European level and counts numerous contacts with the main European and worldwide stakeholders and umbrella associations interested in all those cross-sectoral issues (also at UN or ILO level).

Finally, she co-organised numerous international events, from specialised research seminars to stakeholders' events and international large congresses. In this perspective, she helped to produce documentation and collective books stemming from CIRIEC's researches and conferences.

J茅r么me Schoenmaeckers

J茅r么me Schoenmaeckers obtained his PhD in Economics and Management in October 2018. His research during his PhD thesis focused on the issue of long-term care, i.e. the care of dependent elderly people, by studying the role of the three main actors and their interactions: the family, the state and the market.

After defending his thesis, he was hired as a professor at the Haute Ecole de la Ville de Li猫ge to teach general economics, public finance and Belgian taxation. Recruited at CIRIEC (International Centre of Information and Research on Public, Social and Cooperative Economy) in 2019 as part of a part-time position, his research interests are evolving and are no longer limited to public economics.

He is interested in the statistical measurement of the social and solidarity economy, which is made difficult by the lack of uniformity of definition across countries. His research also focuses on the question of the role of mutual health organizations and their status at the crossroads of the public and social economy.

The scope of his publications is expanding (Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics) and his aim is to start research collaborations in didactics with the idea of measuring potential learning deltas related to specific pedagogical practices. Indeed, he has been a guest lecturer at HEC-Li猫ge since the end of his thesis and has just obtained a part-time teaching position as a didactics teacher in economics and management.听

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