Dr Sandra Gruescu led ResPublica's work around children and families policy from January 2010 until August 2011. She co-authored '
Asset Building for Children' with Phillip Blond, published in Autumn 2010. She was previously a senior research fellow at the Social Market Foundation, and worked extensively in public policy research and consultancy, especially in the areas of pension policy and family policy for the German government. The ground-breaking new set of family policy provisions introduced in Germany in January 2007 is based on a report that Sandra co-authored with the then Chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts, Prof. Dr. Bert Rürup. Sandra’s research interests cover a wide range of social policy areas such as social capital, behavioural economics in social policy, pensions and savings behaviour, and family-friendly policies.