Romina Boarini heads the Monitoring Well-Being and Progress Section of the OECD Statistics Directorate. In this role she is mainly responsible for the analytical and statistical work behind the OECD Better Life Initiative, including Your Better Life Index and the report How’s Life? Measuring Well-Being. She is also in charge of the statistical pillar of the OECD Inclusive Growth Initiative, an OECD horizontal project that seeks to develop a new vision for combining economic growth and well-being. Recently she started working on a project on well-being and Big Data and on a project on experimental measures of trust.
She has been member of various working groups on measuring quality of life and well-being, as the Eurostat Expert Group of Quality of Life and the WHO-Euro Well-Being Expert Group. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). Her research interests include well-being, distributive justice and social norms, education, experimental and behavioural economics.