Professor Marek Góra - full professor; lectures in macroeconomics, pension economics, labour economics, population economics, health economics, economic and social policy; previously, also in econometrics and economic forecasting; co-founder of the Polish Pension Group SGH. Research Fellow at IZA; member of Council of Advisors, Population Europe; articles mostly in pension economics, labour economics; visiting professor at the College of Europe (lectures in social policy, political economy); previously (various periods) research at LSE, Erasmus University, Ifo Munich; 1990-1997 Executive Committee member of EALE; 1992-1993 Visiting Partner at the DELSA/OECD; consultancies (World Bank, IMF, European Commission, OECD, UNDP). Co-author of the design of the current Polish pension system introduced in 1999.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2004.