Iva Valentinova Tasseva

Dr. Iva Valentinova Tasseva is an Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She joined LSE in 2020 as an LSE Fellow, following a PhD in Economics and research work at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex. She is an elected member of the EUROMOD Scientific Advisory Board and an invited expert for the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission research program on Economic Equality. Her research focuses on income inequality, poverty, tax-benefit policies, and tax-benefit microsimulation. She has contributed to developing EUROMOD and UKMOD models for distributional analysis, with recent work assessing pandemic impacts on household incomes in the UK and Europe, and social protection in African and Latin American countries.

Dr. Tasseva teaches courses on poverty, inequality, and social policy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her expertise includes quantitative methods and the measurement of income reporting errors in household surveys. She has published in journals such as the Journal of European Social Policy and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and her work addresses policy design, automatic stabilizers, and crisis resilience.

Her current projects include examining social protection in African nations during crises and analyzing unemployment benefits misreporting using administrative data. She collaborates with UNU-WIDER and other institutions on global policy analyses. No specific awards are mentioned, but her extensive peer-reviewed publications and advisory roles highlight her scholarly contributions. She is affiliated with the Welfare and Policy (WAP) society and maintains an active presence in policy-relevant research networks.