Yannick Vanderborght

Yannick Vanderborght is a Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Louvain and a member of the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics and the Research Center in Political Science (CReSPo). He serves as an associate editor of Basic Income Studies and focuses on comparative politics, social policy, and basic income research.

• Research interests include comparative social policy, labor market dynamics, and unconditional basic income.
• His academic work spans 25 years of analyzing basic income feasibility across OECD countries, with a focus on Belgium, the Netherlands, and Japan.

Key trends in his 15 most recent articles emphasize the intersection of basic income and social investment policies, exploring their potential for labor market reform and poverty reduction in globalized economies.

He supervises a diverse group of PhD and MA students, including Pierre-Etienne Vandamme, Mahua Agrawal, and Jean-Michel Chaumont, and contributes to international policy debates through books, conference presentations, and research reports.