“ Philippe Van Kerm is Professor of Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Luxembourg and Research Director at LIS. His research focuses on the measurement, dynamics and determinants of socio-economic inequalities, including income and wealth distribution, poverty, social mobility and wages. A central strand of his work examines how taxes, social protection and other public policies shape the distribution of economic resources and contribute to reducing—or reproducing—inequalities. ”

“ Philippe Van Kerm is an economist, Professor of Inequality and Social Policy Analysis at the University of Luxembourg's Department of Social Sciences and Research Director at LIS, the cross-national data center in Luxembourg. Most of his research is on the measurement and the determinants of socio-economic inequalities — income distribution and its dynamics, poverty, wealth, social mobility, wages, migration and gender gaps, and the redistributive role of taxes and social protection.

His work has been published in diverse academic outlets such as Demography, the Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, Economica, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, the Journal of European Social Policy or Research on Stratification and Social Mobility. He is also the author of several widely used Stata packages for distributional analysis.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Namur (Belgium). Before joining the University of Luxembourg in 2017, he spent sixteen years at CEPS/INSTEAD, now LISER, where he headed the Living Conditions department, served as interim scientific director and led the Graduate Studies Programme; he held a joint appointment between LISER and the University until 2023. He has been a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics and is an affiliate at INET (University of Oxford), the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (City University of New York) and ZEW Mannheim.

He is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and of the Stata Journal, and a member of the Council of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). He has led research projects funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), the European Commission (FP7) and NORFACE. ”