My name is Bas Kraan and I am a graduate of both the Economic Policy and Law & Economics master programmes at Utrecht University. Inspired by my experiences at the Descartes College and GHIShonours programmes, I am passionate about taking an interdisciplinary approach to most effectively address the socio-economic policy challenges. In my academic research so far, I have specifically worked on the fields of political economy, labour economics and development economics. To further explore these topics, I have followed a second master in Economic Policy, especially to expand my quantitative research skills (especially with Stata). Furthermore, as a visually impaired person myself, the equality of opportunity of people with a disability in both professional and academic situations is very important to me. Speaking from personal experience, I firmly believe that, with some adjustments and the aid of technology, a disability should not limit your ability to achieve your goals