Background
Kvist is the son of a teacher and a psychiatrist.
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Jon Kvist
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Education
He studied at the University of Odense in Denmark and at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Career
From 1998 to 2008, Kvist was a senior researcher for the Danish National Institute of Social Research. In 2002, Kvist co-founded ESPAnet, the European network of Social Policy Analysts, a group of academics who study European social policy. Kvist was on the Expert Group on Welfare in an Independent Scotland set down by the Scottish Government 2013-2014.
Currently, Kvist is on the Danish Government Commission on Unemployment Insurance (Dagpengekommissionen) that is to analyse and recommend reform of the unemployment insurance system.
Membership
He is a professor at the Institute of Society and Globalization, at the Roskilde University, as well as a member of the Nordic Centre of Excellence on Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model. He was a member of its board until 2008. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Social Policy.
Kvist is also member of the new European Commission European Network on Social Policy.
