COVID-19 has triggered an economic shock like no other in living memory. Social distancing and trading restrictions hit small businesses particularly hard, with many seeing
Lilas Demmou
Lilas Demmou is a Deputy Head of Division and the Head of the Financial Policy, Investment and Growth workstream at the OECD Economics Department. She has been at the OECD since 2010 and she is currently working mainly on the link between finance and productivity. Before joining the OECD, Lilas was economist at the French Ministry of Economy for three years and a post-doctoral scholar at the Paris school of Economics, Erasmus University and London School of Economy. She holds a Ph.D from the University Paris VIII. Her main area of interest are innovation and productivity, international trade, and labour market.