Asghar Zaidi
Asghar Zaidi is a Senior Economist at the Social Policy Division, OECD,
Paris and he is also Director Research at the European Centre in Vienna. At OECD,
he is working on issues related to pensions policy in OECD countries.
In the past, he
worked as an Economic Advisor at the Department for Work and Pensions of the United Kingdom,
and as a researcher at the Social Policy Department of London School of Economics and University
of Oxford. His work interests include economics of ageing (particularly pension reforms and
their impact on retirement incomes), implications of living costs of disability on poverty and
resource measurement, and dynamic microsi¬mulation modelling (in particular those used for
pension trends and its underlying factors).
He is currently the vice-president of the
International Microsimulation Association, and also the co-editor of the forthcoming book “New Frontiers in Microsimulation
Modelling” (jointly with Ann Harding and Paul Williamson). He has also edited a book “Mainstreaming Ageing: Indicators to Monitor
Sustainable Policy” (jointly with Bernd Marin). His other relevant work includes research poverty of older people in EU member States.
He is a research affiliate at the German Economic Research Institute (DIW Berlin) and at the Centre for the Ana¬lysis of Social Exclusion,
London School of Economics, London.