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Lena Simet

Social Security Good Life Resident

Lena Simet is a senior advisor on social and economic policy at Human Rights Watch, where she leads work on social security and broader social protection systems.

With more than 15 years of experience, she researches benefit adequacy, gender disparities in lifetime earnings, and the financing of social protection in the context of labor market transformation and inequality. She has authored numerous reports on retirement insecurity and labor precarity, and regularly consults on economic policy and global poverty reduction. She has a PhD in public and urban policy from The New School.