EU presidency of Lithuania high-level Occupational Safety and Health Conference

Agnès Parent-Thirion is a senior research manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound, overseeing the planning and development of working conditions research. She plays a key role in the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), co-leading the preparation of and leading the questionnaire development for EWCS 2030. Her research interests include job quality, work organisation, gender, psychosocial risks and the impact of the green and digital transitions on working life. With over two decades of experience working on European comparative surveys, Agnès specialises in questionnaire development, coding of occupations, quality control and analysis. She is a graduate in economics and management from Paris IX Dauphine and Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne universities and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. She has also completed specialised training on AI leadership (MIT Sloan Executive Education) and the major challenges of transition (Campus de la Transition). Before joining Eurofound, she worked for a number of years in the European Commission.