Dr Giulia Tagliaferri

Giulia is a the Head of Quantitative Research at BIT. She is responsible for setting and maintaining research standards at across the organisation. As expert in complex quantitative evaluations (observational data, quasi-experimental methods, thorny RCTs) she leads BIT’s analytically most complex projects, with a particular focus in Health and Wellbeing. In 2023, she has been appointed as an evaluation expert to the Cabinet Office Evaluation and Trial Advice Panel (ETAP), with the aim of supporting civil servants and What Works Centres in the design and implementation of robust, high-quality evaluations.

Prior to joining BIT, Giulia worked for the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) at the London School of Economics, conducting research in the field of education.

She completed her PhD in Economics at Queen Mary University of London in 2018, where her research focused of the economics of identity. She holds an MSc and a BA in Economics and Social Sciences from Universita’ Bocconi in Milan.