Bledi Taska is EVP and Chief Economist at Emsi Burning Glass. He is a labor economist specializing in the application of econometrics and data science methods on real time labor market data. At Emsi Burning Glass, Bledi leads a team of economists and data scientists, which supports the company’s public policy research, product development, and collaboration with academic researchers and international organizations.
Current projects at Emsi Burning Glass involve topics around skills mismatch and labor shortages, the future of skills, the effect of automation and COVID, and reskilling of workers based on skill adjacencies. Bledi has been invited to present at conferences organized by UNESCO, CEDEFOP, OECD, World Bank, ILO, IZA, and NESTA among others.
Bledi’s work at Emsi Burning Glass has been published or featured in several popular media outlets from all over the world, such as the Australian Financial Review, the Daily Telegraph, the Economist, France 24, the Financial Time, The Guardian, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Bledi earned a doctorate degree in economics from New York University with a concentration in labor and education economics and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Athens, Greece.