Risks that matter

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Valerie Frey from the OECD, pictured right with ESRI researcher Claire Keane, presented findings from the Risks that Matter survey as part of the ESRI Seminar Series

Valerie Frey from the OECD, pictured right with ESRI researcher Claire Keane, presented findings from the Risks that Matter survey as part of the ESRI Seminar Series.

Guest Speaker

Valerie Frey, OECD

Seminar Topic

Valerie will discuss the results from the ‘Risks that Matter’ survey. The survey aims to put the principle of “listening to people” into practice, in order to better understand people’s worries and concerns, to capture their views on current social policies, and to learn what they expect from social policy in the future . The survey asked over 22 000 people in 21 OECD countries in 2018 about their social and economic risks and how well they think their government tackles these risks. Valerie will focus on the results for Ireland and put them into an international perspective.

Find out more about the Risks that Matter survey on the OECD website here.

Read about the results for Ireland on a factsheet by the OECD here.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Valerie Frey is a Policy Analyst in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD. Valerie has worked at the OECD since 2012. Prior to that she worked at Yale University, where she received her PhD. She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank.

At the OECD she leads projects analysing social programs and socioeconomic outcomes in OECD countries, and has expertise in program evaluation, social service delivery, public opinion and gender inequality.