Rose Vincent

Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
Dr Rose Camille Vincent is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Public Economics of ETH Zürich. Her research focuses primarily on the political-economic and behavioural implications of institutional arrangements regarding taxation and tax policies. She is also invested in collecting and compiling unique datasets using administrative records and archives that define the structure of public sector institutions, especially in developing and emerging economies (see for example TRA dataset).

Aside from her research, Dr Vincent has been involved in various teaching activities, including in public economics, econometrics, impact evaluation methods, and economics and society in contemporary Latin America. She has also been the primary supervisor and co-evaluator of bachelor and master theses at UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University.

Dr Vincent has a proven track record of successful collaboration with research and policy institutions on projects related to public finance and development. She has worked for or consulted to the OECD, the World Bank Group, the GIZ, the Inter-American Development Bank, the WHO, the UNU-WIDER, the International Centre for Tax and Development (IDS/ICTD), and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW-Berlin), among others. Since 2017, she has been an academic contributor to the World Observatory on Subnational Finance and Investment and has collaborated on the creation of novel databases on sub-national finance (see for example the database on Regional Government Finance and Investment - REGOFI).

Dr Vincent graduated with a dual PhD from Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and Université Clermont-Auvergne (CERDI-CNRS, France). She also holds a MSc in econometrics and statistics from the University of Toulouse (France), a master's in public policy specialising in economic policy from the Hertie School of Governance (Germany), and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the National Taiwan University (Taiwan). She is a native speaker of French and Haitian Creole and is professionally proficient in English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.