Stephan Raes - (OECD)

Stephan Raes is a Policy Analyst and Advisor at the OECD Centre for SMEs, Entrepreneurship, Regions and Cities, where he works on the OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Strategy and the monitoring and analysis of SME and entrepreneurship policy responses across OECD countries to the COVID-19 pandemic. He previously worked as Director for Strategy, Research and International Affairs at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Economic Affairs, Minister Economic at the Royal Netherlands’ Embassy in Washington DC, and Head of the Economic Affairs team at the Netherlands Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels. He has a Master’s degree in European Studies and a Ph.D. in Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the context of changing Global Value Chains (University of Amsterdam).