Virginija Poškutė, Professor at the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania. She is an economist and social policy analyst, holds PhD in Economics from Vilnius University (Lithuania), Master’s degree from Roskilde University (Denmark) and University of Bath (UK). Virginija was visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley and Fulbright researcher at Darden Graduate School, University of Virginia (USA). Virginija has extensive international job experience (UNDP/Lithuania; International Master’s Programme “European Social Policy Analysis” by CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg and Leuven University, Belgium), has participated in various international consultancy projects for the World Bank, UN, UNDP, UNICEF, EIGE, European Commission, OECD as well as national projects on economic and social issues for the Lithuanian Government. Virginija’s main research interests are within social policy, welfare economics and competitiveness.