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Markus Kanerva is an applied behavioral sciences specialist who has a goal to make field experiments as a standard tool in policy evaluation. He holds a part-time position at the Finnish Prime Minister's Office, teaches at a local applied science university, participates in academic research work and advises private companies. Markus is a founder and Managing Director of Tänk, an independent Finnish think tank that introduced the idea of basic income trial to Finnish decision-makers in 2014. He was part of the task force that prepared the UBI trial for the Finnish government, which later hired him to support the on-going trial.

Olli Kangas is Director of Government and Community Relations at KELA, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland and Professor of Practice at the University of Turku. He is also a program leader of the Equal Society research program at the Academy of Finland. His research interests revolve around the comparative political economy of the welfare state-institutions, causes and consequences. He was responsible for designing, with his team, the Basic Income Experiment in Finland, a policy measure designed to reform the Finnish social security system to better correspond with the changes in working life and simplify the complex benefit system.

Markus Kanerva is an applied behavioral sciences specialist who has a goal to make field experiments as a standard tool in policy evaluation. He holds a part-time position at the Finnish Prime Minister's Office, teaches at a local applied science university, participates in academic research work and advises private companies. Markus is a founder and Managing Director of Tänk, an independent Finnish think tank that introduced the idea of basic income trial to Finnish decision-makers in 2014. He was part of the task force that prepared the UBI trial for the Finnish government, which later hired him to support the on-going trial.