Bertrand Verheyden is a researcher and formerly Head of the Labour Market Department at LISER. He received his PhD in Economics at the University of Namur in May 2008. He is a public economist interested in the fields of Labour, Migration and Education. He produces normative analyses on important societal challenges such as the international mobility and integration of human capital as well as the optimal provision of childcare and education. In order to do so, he develops empirically relevant microeconomic models that lead to testable implications and policy recommendations. He has published articles in the Journal of Public economics, the Journal of Development Economics the IZA Journal of Migration and the Journal of African Economies.