Weys Qaran

**Weys Qaran is a PhD candidate at the department of Public Administration of Erasmus University Rotterdam.** He is contributing to several Work Packages of the INSPIRES research project, which is a long-term project co-funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The project analyzes in-depth the evolution of labour markets, employment and social policies and the qualitative and quantitative position of vulnerable groups on the labour market from 2000 onwards. Qaran has a Bachelor’s degree in ’integrated security’ (Dutch: Integrale Veiligheidskunde). In august 2011, he received the degree of Master of Science (MSc) in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Ever since, he has been working on several projects at Erasmus University. He also made it through the final round of NWO's (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Mozaiek scholarship for his research proposal on the Impact of social media on public accountability in developing countries such as Afghanistan.