Nicolas Boivin
Nicolas joined Bruegel as a Research assistant in September 2024. Previously, he worked in foreign affairs as a graduate trainee at the Embassy of Switzerland in Ireland, covering the economy, bi- and multilateral trade and electoral politics.
He earned his two master’s degrees in economics and political science at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). As an undergraduate, he studied analytic philosophy at King’s College London. His MSc dissertation at the LSE developed a game theoretic model to analyse inclusion and exclusion decisions in political groups. At UPF, his MSc project quantified the causal impact of a major childcare reform in New York on women’s labour force participation.
Nicolas is a native English and German speaker and has a working knowledge of French