Kamil Sekut
Kamil worked at Bruegel as a research analyst until March 2025. He studied Economics (BSc) at University of Warsaw with a semester exchange at Utrecht University. He pursued MSc in Economics at KU Leuven, where he specialized in labour issues, development economics and applied econometrics.
Before coming to Bruegel, Kamil worked as a Research assistant at the Group for Research in Applied Economics, a non-governmental research centre based in Warsaw where he worked on several projects in labour economics. He also finished a summer internship at the Polish Ministry of Finance, where he analysed differences in wage trajectories of parents after childbirth.
His MSc thesis defended at KU Leuven investigated the impact of occupational skill mismatch on job satisfaction and mental health of workers.
Kamil is also interested in long-term growth, political economy, and innovation policy. He speaks English fluently and is a native speaker of Polish.
Featured work
Relaunching Europe's space economy
This Blueprint analyses the scope for the European Union to become a leader on innovation, sustainability, resilience and security in the space sector
Performance-based Instruments: How could their design be improved?
Greening the EU budget: why climate mainstreaming needs reform
The EU’s climate mainstreaming framework suffers from design flaws and complexity, risks greenwashing and does not detect harmful activities
Performance and mainstreaming framework for the EU budget - Empirical evidence, analysis and recommendations
All work
Blueprint
08 July 2025
Relaunching Europe's space economy
This Blueprint analyses the scope for the European Union to become a leader on innovation, sustainability, resilience and security in the space sector
Report
25 April 2025
Analysis
26 February 2025
Greening the EU budget: why climate mainstreaming needs reform
The EU’s climate mainstreaming framework suffers from design flaws and complexity, risks greenwashing and does not detect harmful activities
Report
07 January 2025
First Glance
30 October 2024
Russian internet outage offers clues about online ‘goblin’ army
The outage provides new evidence of the Russian state’s use of bot networks to influence public discourse on Western social media platforms
Analysis
23 September 2024
Simplifying EU law: a cumbersome task with mixed results
The volume and complexity of EU laws continue to increase despite measures taken in previous mandates to make existing legislation less burdensome
Dataset
06 June 2024
Working paper
29 February 2024
Knowledge spillovers and geopolitical challenges in global supply chains
Our main message is that policies restricting knowledge flows should be limited to narrowly defined areas of strategic importance.
Analysis
20 December 2023
Promoting STEM skills: a brief assessment of French individual learning accounts
French ILA successfully promotes basic digital skills but falls short of fostering more advanced capabilities.
Analysis
05 July 2023
Can Europe make its space launch industry competitive?
Europe is falling behind in the global commercial space launch sector; a new programme may not be enough to fix the shortcomings