Mikko Silliman obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2023. He is interested in how education systems can be designed to tackle inequality and sustain employment through changes in the nature of work. He is an Assistant Professor at the Aalto University School of Business, Department of Economics. Before moving to Finland, he spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Norwegian School of Economics. Before his doctoral studies he studied at Tufts, Oxford, and Helsinki Universities, and conducted research at the OECD and the VATT Institute for Economic Research.

Mikko Silliman joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in March 2023.