Christophe Joyeux has a master’s degree in economics (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and a postgraduate degree in econometrics (Université Libre de Bruxelles - 1994). After working for a few years at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he began to work at the Belgian Federal Planning Bureau in 1999. He is currently a member of the “Social protection, demography and prospective studies” team and mainly works on long-term projections of social expenditure and public finance. He is also in charge of the secretariat of the Pensions Knowledge Centre.