With a background in psychology and educational sciences, Magdalena Balica has over 25 years’ experience in educational research. Her current focus area of research is wellbeing in education. She has authored a series of policy papers on wellbeing during the pandemic and she managed a foundational study on student wellbeing in partnership with the Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford – one of the main partners in the project. Magdalena had a major contribution to the design of the current project, and she is leading the research component of the “Wellbeing in school” project.

Magdalena Balica is originally from Romania and she has been with the IB for over 5 years in The Hague Office, The Netherlands.