Ilan Tojerow has a Degree in Economics & Political Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), a Master (DEA) in European Economic Integration at University of Sussex (UK) and a PhD in Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).

Since October 2012, he is Assistant Professor at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB). He is affiliated to the Centre Emile Bernheim (CEB) and the Department of Applied Economics of ULB (DULBEA). He was previously FNRS research associate, visiting Scholar (Fulbright/BAEF Fellow) at the University of California, Berkeley (Center for Labor Economics), visiting research fellow at the Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) and visiting assistant professor at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL).

His fields of competence are: wage inequalities and economic performance, labour economics, and European integration and labour market policies.

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in October 2005 and became a Research Fellow in December 2011.