After publishing the book, we were fortunate enough to secure funding of € 236.600 for 2022 to expand the team to give more workshops and develop ready-to-use teaching packs. The grant was part of the growing European Macro Policy Network (EMPN) led by the German macro-finance thinktank Dezernat Zukunft and funded by effective altruist foundation Open Philanthropy. For 2023, they provided follow-up funding of €164.600.
Sam de Muijnck (Director)
Sam works on the Economy Studies teaching packs, building and strengthening networks, and giving workshops and talks. He also writes policy briefs and reports. Together with Joris, he wrote the report Thinking like an economist? (2018), the book Economy Studies (2021) and the report Dutch Economics Education Review 2024. He also has experience from the Ministry of Finance and graduated in 2020 with an interdisciplinary research master’s degree in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Besides his economics activities, he is a hip-hop artist and breakdance teacher.
Joris Tieleman (Chief Economist)
Joris works on Economy Studies workshops, lesson plans for high school economics education and a new framework for professional business education. Together with Sam, he wrote the report Thinking like an economist? (2018), the book Economy Studies (2021), and the report Dutch Economics Education Review 2024. Previously, he wrote his PhD on urban growth in West Africa (cum laude) for the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He also worked as a staff research journalist for the Volkskrant, and co-founded the Dutch branch of Rethinking Economics.
Jamie Barker (Economics Education Consultant)
Jamie coordinates workshops and provides support for academics, to help departments and educators to change the way that economics is taught. He wrote the Irish Economics Education Review 2024. He graduated from the Economics and Social Sciences MSc at Università Bocconi (Italy) in 2021 and the Economics with Econometrics BSc at University of Exeter (UK) in 2018. He has recently started a part-time PhD on the wellbeing economy at the University of Glasgow. Previously, he spent three years working at the Bank of England, initially as a research assistant and later as an international economic analyst. Outside of work he enjoys playing korfball and board games.
