Chiara Criscuolo is head of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Division in the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation at the OECD where she also co-manages the Global Forum on Productivity. Her work mainly focuses on entrepreneurship, productivity, policy evaluation as well as production networks and resilience. In this realm, she has coordinated large cross-country microdata projects on employment dynamics, productivity, and research and development. Chiara has played a lead role in advancing the use of firm level data and of microdata projects within the OECD and at the World Bank Group where she has worked between 2024-26 in the DEC Private Markets unit. Chiara is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society and has a wife publication record. Ahead of joining the OECD, Chiara received her doctoral degree in Economics from University College London and held academic appointments at the University of Siena, City University and the University of Cambridge, in addition to the London School of Economics.