Miriam Matthiessen is a Policy Assistant at FEANTSA. She divides her time between Housing Rights Watch, a network of legal experts and academics that aims to strengthen and promote the right to housing in Europe; and the Housing Solutions Platform, a knowledge platform that seeks to inform, engage, and debate on innovative solutions for more affordable housing. Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, she has also been coordinating an information gathering and sharing initiative by FEANTSA to help facilitate mutual learning and exchange across the homeless sector in Europe. Miriam holds a B.Sc. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from University College London.
Mark Pearson is Deputy Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Prior to 2014, he was Head of the Health Division where he helped countries to improve their health systems by providing internationally comparable data, state-of-the-art analysis and appropriate policy recommendations on a wide range of health policies. Major current work of the Division is on the economics of preventing obesity; comparisons of the prices of health care goods and services; assessing long-term care policies; trends in health spending; expanding health coverage; co-ordination of care; pay-for-performance; use of evidence in health care; the migration of the health-care workforce; health care quality indicators; measuring health care outcomes, outputs and inputs; and health and ICTs. Key publications resulting from the work he has managed include OECD Health at a Glance and Achieving Better Value for Money in Health Care, as well as The Economics of Prevention: Fit not Fat.
Before moving to Paris, he was employed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, and he has been a consultant for the World Bank, the IMF and the European Commission.
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