Joanna Tyrowicz is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Warsaw and President for the Foundation of Admirers and Mavens of Economics. She earned her PhD in Economics in 2006 at Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw. She also holds a degree from Katholike Universiteit Leuven. As of 2007 she serves as an Economic Advisor at the Economic Institute of National Bank of Poland, specializing in labor market and household issues. She has also collaborated with the World Bank. In 2009 she was a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, and in 2010 she was a Mellon Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. Her tenure book “Unemployment Hysteresis” was awarded the Prize for Best Economic Book of 2014 by Polish Economic Association.