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Patrick Agte, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics 

Area of expertise: 

• How caste norms and social identity shape women’s work opportunities in India.  

Email: Patrick.Agte@hhs.se  
Phone: +46 76 742 53 90 
Languages: English, German 

Lin Lerpold, associate professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy; Director of the SIR Center for Sustainability Research (CSR); Vice Director of the Sustainable Finance Lab; Director of the Center for Migration and Integration 

Area of expertise:

• Forced labour and modern slavery.  
• How and why precarious working conditions are growing and being perpetuated through business models in diverse risk sectors in high income nations such as Sweden and the EU. 
• How our regulatory environment needs to be adapted to new realities to hinder the exploitation of the most vulnerable workers in the labour market. 

Email: lin.lerpold@hhs.se   
Phone: +46 (0)72 576 99 42  
Languages: English, Swedish

Celine Harion Zipfel, assistant professor at the Department of Economics, affiliated researcher at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets  

Area of expertise:  

• Development, labor and family economics.  
• Fertility and occupational choices.  
• Gender roles in households and their impact on gender gaps in the labor market.  

Email: Celine.Zipfel@hhs.se  
Phone: +46 (0)70 039 9462  
Language: English, French 

Johanna Wallenius, professor at the Department of Economics 

Area of expertise: 

• Impact of pension reforms on retirement age and workforce participation, retirement/working behavior in aging populations. 
• The role of tax policy in shaping workforce participation; how tax policies can lead to differences in work hours and employment rates. 
• How family policies, such as childcare subsidies, affect female employment, earnings and the gender wage gap. 

Email: johanna.wallenius@hhs.se 
Languages: English, Finnish