Resource persons
Meet some of the resource persons.
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Social Policy Specialist, Social Security Department |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Christina Behrendt is Social Policy Specialist in the Social Security Department of the International Labour Office in Geneva. Previously she worked as Regional Social Security Specialist in the ILO Regional Office for Arab States, as Social Security Specialist in the ILO’s Social Security Department, as consultant for the International Social Security Association (ISSA), and as lecturer and research fellow at the Department for Politics and Management at the University of Konstanz. |
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Chief, Technical Cooperation & Country Operations Group |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Social security for social justice and a fair globalization, 1st week |
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Christine Bocksal has been working for the International Labour Organization (ILO) since 1980, mainly in Africa. Now, she is the chief of technical cooperation of Social Security Department. Before, she was the ILO Regional Specialist for the Extension of Social Protection, based in Dakar. She combined this task with the Coordination of the ILO / STEP program in Africa. From 1993 to 1998 she has been ILO Chief Technical Adviser of the program Strengthening Small and Micro-enterprises, Co-operatives and Associations in Tanzania. From 1987 to 1993 she has been Chief Technical Adviser, Assistance to Rural Non Agricultural Small-Scale Enterprises in Rwanda. From 1984 to 1986 she has been Chief Technical Adviser, Women Empowerment and Productive Activities, Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. |
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Chief, Social Security Education, Training and Capacity Building, Social Security Department International Labour Organization |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Pension policy, 2nd week |
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Alejandro Bonilla García joined the Financial and Actuarial Branch of the Social Security Department of the ILO in 1990 as Senior Actuary. From 1994 to 1997 Mr Bonilla Garcia held a position of Senior Social Security Expert in the ILO’s Multi-disciplinary Team for Central America and Panama in San Jose, Costa Rica before he was appointed Deputy Regional Director at the ILO Regional Office for the Americas in Lima, Peru. He returned to ILO’s Headquarters in Geneva in 2000 and took the position as Policy and Research Coordinator. In 2005 he was promoted Chief of the Studies and Operations Branch of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) where he became Director of Partnerships in 2007. In 2008 he served as Chief Technical Advisor for Capacity Building and Training on Actuarial Methods and Social Protection Financing for Latin America and the Caribbean (QUATRAIN-AMERICAS) of the ILO. Since 2009, Alejandro Bonilla García is Chief of Education, Training and Capacity Building on Social Security of the Social Security Department. |
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Statistics and Research Coordinator, Social Security Department |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Senior Policy Advisor to the Board Social Security Bank of the Netherlands |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Social security governance: Guideline and case studies, 1st week |
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Luc Boss (50) works for the Dutch SVB (Social Security Bank.) Since 1996 he has held various positions and has worked on various projects at the SVB in which the greatest common denominator has always been the design of client communication. From 2005 onwards he has been the company’s client services coordinator. Since 2010 he holds a position in the department of Information Management and is responsible for the policy and projects on Channel Management. He is also a senior policy advisor to the board on issues related to service delivery concepts. He has studied Dutch Language and Art History and specialised in PR/Communications consultancy. |
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Director, Policy Integration Department |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Impacts of social security on labour markets and the challenge of informality, 2nd week |
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Duncan Campbell is Director of the Policy Integration Department of the International Labour Office. He joined the ILO in 1990 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he had been a member of the Management Department faculty and Associate Director of the Center for Human Resources. He joined the ILO with the International Institute for Labour Studies' programme on new industrial organization where his work concentrated on the effects of rising economic openness and the cross-border organization of production and, later, on the economics of labour standards. He spent three years with the ILO's East Asia Multidisciplinary Team in Bangkok, working with ILO constituents largely in Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam, China, and Malaysia on issues relating to wage policy. He returned to the Employment Strategy Department at headquarters in May 2000 with responsibility for the thematic section of World Employment Report 2001 on information and communication technologies and the world of work, and most recently, World Employment Report 2004-05: Employment, Productivity, and Poverty Reduction. He is a citizen of the USA, has an A.B. from Bowdoin College, and holds M.A., M.B.A., and a PhD (with distinction) in Applied Economics and Managerial Science from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Senior Researcher UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre |
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Florence, Italy |
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Effects of social transfer programmes, 2nd week |
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Cécile currently coordinates research and capacity building activities in social protection in developing countries, with a particular focus on social transfers and complementary social welfare services. She is also involved in the Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis initiative. Before joining the IRC in April 2011, she worked for different development partners, including the World Food Programme, the Economic Policy Research Institute, UNICEF, the UNRWA, the World Bank, and the European Commission. Most of her work over the past 10 years has taken place in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her areas of expertise also include humanitarian aid and food security. |
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Director, Social Security Department |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Social security for social justice and a fair globalization, 1st week |
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Michael Cichon holds a Masters degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics (Technical University, Aachen, Germany), a Masters degree in Public Administration (Harvard University) and a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Göttingen, Germany). He is a member of the German Actuarial Association (DAV), joined the ILO in 1986 as senior actuary and health economist. Between 1992 and 1995 he served as social security specialist on the ILO advisory team for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest. Between 1995 and 2005 he was the Chief of the Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Services Branch of the ILO’s Social Security Department. In May 2005 he was appointed Director of the Social Security Department. He undertook and supervised technical co-operations project in more than 30 countries, writes and social security policy, financing and governance issues and teaches in the joint ILO/University of Maastricht Master’s course on social protection financing. |
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Activity Manager, |
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Turin, Italy |
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Actuarial modeling and costing methods, 2nd week |
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Charles Crevier runs social security training activities at the Centre.
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Deputy Chairman Portuguese Social Security Reserve Fund |
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Lisbon, Portugal |
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Henrique Cruz is Deputy Chairman at the Portuguese Social Security Reserve Fund since 1999. He is responsible for portfolio management of 8.7 bn euros, invested in OECD countries, following a dynamic asset allocation strategy. Henrique has been a Member of the Advisory Board to the Technical Commission on Statistical, Actuarial and Financial Studies, International Social Security Association in 2005-2007 and a Member of the technical commission for the analysis of the financial sustainability of the Portuguese Social Security System in 2001 and 2005/6. Henrique holds an MBA in Management of Insurance and Pension Funds from the University of Barcelona, a CEFA certificate from the European Federation of Financial Analysts and a BA degree in Economics from the University of Oporto. |
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Chief of the Child Poverty and Social and Economic Policy Responses Innocenti Research Centre, UNICEF |
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Florence, Italy |
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Effects of social transfer programmes, 2nd week |
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He studied Philosophy, Sociology and Economics at the Universities of Antwerp and Leuven and obtained its PhD at the University of Groningen. He has been affiliated at various Universities and Research Institutes including the University of Groningen, Nihon University in Tokyo, the European University Institute, Harvard University and Maastricht University. In the latter university he has been the founder and Academic Director of the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance between 2004 and 2010. He published books and articles in academic journals on economic development, labour economics and economics of social protection. |
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Coordinator Actuarial Services, Social Security Department |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Actuarial modeling and costing methods, 2nd week |
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Anne Drouin is the chief of Financial, Actuarial and statistical Advisory Service of the ILO. Before she worked as ILO's Social Security Specialist advising ILO's constituents in East Asia and also as a social security actuary with the branch of the ILO Social Security Department dealing with Finance, Actuarial and Statistical Activities working closely with a number of countries in Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Central America as well as in Thailand and Mongolia. Prior to joining the ILO, she worked for three years as an actuary with the Canada Life Assurance Company in Toronto, Canada. Since 1999, she received the Fellowship accreditation from the Society of Actuaries (USA) and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. She completed a graduate Diploma (MSc) in International Development Studies at the University of Ottawa in 1992 and a Bachelor of Sciences with the Actuarial programme of the Mathematics Department of the Université Laval in 1985. She participated to the publication of different papers and ILO reports on social security, pensions and other actuarial topics, including the co-authoring of ILO's publication on Actuarial Practice in Social Security. |
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Senior Social Dialogue and Employment Relations Specialist, Industrial and Employment Relations Department International Labour Office |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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International Labour Standards: social security and social dialogue, 2nd week |
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Youcef Ghellab is a Senior Social Dialogue and Employment Relations Specialist, Industrial and Employment Relations Department, ILO Geneva. He holds a PHD in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from the Paris-based Dauphine University and a Master’s in Public Administration from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in Paris. |
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IMF Special Representative to the UN and Asst. Director, Strategy and Policy Review Department at International Monetary Fund |
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Many years of experience as an IMF macroeconomist working on a range of Francophone African countries; IMF Mission chief in Togo, Chad and Guinea, responsible for negotiation of IMF financial arrangements with these countries; IMF representative on the OECD-DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, dealing with issues of the effectiveness, alignment and harmonization of official development assistance. Headed the division responsible within the IMF for all development-related policy issues, as well as relations with the United Nations system and mutilalteral and bilateral aid donors; Member of Working Group One on the International Task Force on International Innovative Financing for Health Systems; and the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Global Green New Deal |
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Chief, Policy Development and Research, Social Security Department |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Social budgeting for adequate and affordable floors of protection, 1st week |
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Krzysztof Hagemejer holds a Masters degree in Econometrics and a Ph.D. in Economics, both from Warsaw University. Before joining the Social Security Department of the ILO in 1993, worked as assistant professor at the Department of Economics of Warsaw University and adviser to the Polish Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. |
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President |
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Paris, France |
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2nd week |
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Martin Hirsch served as High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty and High Commissioner for the Youth of France (2007-2010) and was responsible for designing and implementing the Revenu de Solidarité Active (RSA) that combines income support to unemployed with incentives to return to the labour market which served as a inspiration for the international development of the concept of social protection floor. Mr. Hirsch was president of the French nongovernmental organization Emmaüs from 2002 to 2007 and held several positions in the French public administration, including Chief Executive Director of the French Food Safety Agency (1999-2005). |
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Senior Advisor (consultant) with the World Bank, Head of the RH Institute for Economic Policy Analysis, Vienna, titular Professor of Economics, University of Vienna |
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Austria |
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Pension policy, 2nd week |
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Robert Holzmann is the Senior Advisor (consultant) with the World Bank, Head of the RH Institute for Economic Policy Analysis, Vienna, titular Professor of Economics, University of Vienna, and Research Fellow of IZA and CESifo. From May 1997 to end-February 2011 he was Director at the World Bank, including Sector Head of the Social Protection & Labor Department leading, inter alia, the strategic and conceptual work on pensions at the World Bank. Before joining the Bank he was full professor of economics and the managing director to the European Institute at the University of Saarland, Germany, professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and senior economist at the IMF and OECD. He has published 28 books and over 150 articles on social, fiscal and financial policy issues. |
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Visiting Fellow Institute of Development Studies |
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Munich, Germany |
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Gabriele Koehler is a development practitioner based in Munich, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, where her current research is on South Asian welfare states and their social protection policies. With the UN from 1983-2010, she was an economist with UN ESCAP and UNCTAD. Senior positions included that of UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Latvia (Riga); Special Assistant to the UNCTAD Secretary General (Geneva); and Regional Advisor on Economic and Social Policy with UNICEF South Asia (Kathmandu). Her focus areas are development policy, international trade and investment, decent work and social protection, gender and social inclusion, human rights and the MDGs. She advises UN agencies and governments on social and economic policy. |
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Secretary General |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Pro-active and preventive social security, 1st week |
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The Secretary General of the International Social Security Association since 2005, Mr. Hans-Horst Konkolewsky has promoted the concept of dynamic social security and is a leading advocate of the social dimension of globalization. |
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Visiting researcher UNDP Poverty Group |
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Sao Paulo,Brazil |
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Maikel R. Lieuw Kie Song holds a Masters degree in Civil Engineering and has worked in the private sector, academia and the NGO sector before joining the South African government in 2004. He has been working in South Africa for the last five years, mainly on employment and poverty reduction issues through public works programmes. He has coordinated the infrastructure sector of the programme called “Expanded Public Works Programme” (EPWP), which currently employs approximately 300,000 people annually. He is now working in Sao Paulo (Brazil) as a visiting researcher for the UNDP Poverty Group and is still consulting part time with the South African Government. |
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Senior Advisor, Social Protection Sector International Labour Office |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Philippe Marcadent is Senior advisor of the Executive Director of the Social Protection Sector of the International Labour Organization (ILO). He is also the Technical Coordinator of the “Strategies and Tools against Social Exclusion and Poverty” (STEP) Programme of the ILO. He leads research, policy development and technical assistance in the field of social protection. Prior to joining the ILO Geneva in 1998, he worked for 12 years in several programmes aiming at fighting poverty in Africa and Latin America. He is a development economist. |
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Freelance consultant |
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Australia |
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Smarter Administration to Meet Stakeholder Expectations, 2nd week |
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Greg McTaggart has 30 year’s experience reforming social security systems. He specializes in policy development and its implementation. His first experience was with reform of civil service pensions in Australia and then became one of the founding figures in the Australian compulsory private pension system. He consulted to Governments in the Asia/Pacific rim, before moving to the UK to work on its pension system. In 1996 he began consulting to Governments of the former Soviet Union, working in most of the former republics. In 2008-11 he worked with 6 Chinese Provincial Governments to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their social insurance organisations and introduce the Rural Pension Scheme. He currently is helping the Vietnamese Government modernize its social security system. He has an MBA from Monash University in Australia, specializing in public policy and human resources management. |
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Senior Social Protection Advisor to the ILO Director-General |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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2nd week |
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He advises the ILO senior management on issues related to social security, migration, occupational safety and health, HIV-AIDs in the world of work, gender and working conditions. He is also the Executive Secretary of the Social Protection Advisory Group, the ILO Sherpa in the G20 Development Group and has been following the social protection and employment discussions in the G20 as ILO representative. Prior to assuming this position, he was in charge of social protection capacity building activities in the ILO Social Security Department (2007-2009) and in the Turin Centre (2005-2007). He also worked for the OECD Financial Markets Division and for OECD Economics Department in Paris (2002-2005) being responsible for research in the areas of private pensions regulation and supervision and for reviewing the Latin American social protection schemes. In Brazil, he was the State Secretary for Social Security (1999-2002) responsible for the design and implementation of important constitutional social security reforms, and accumulated several national and international positions, including serving as Vice Minister of Social Security and Vice President of the Inter-American Social Security Conference (CISS), based in Mexico. He occupied several positions in the Ministry of Social Security and Ministry of Health and worked at the Brazilian Social and Economic Research Applied Research Institute (IPEA) in UNICEF, UNDP and World Bank funded projects in the area of health financing (1994-1998)). He also worked as consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank in Argentina and of the World Bank in Kenya. He was Assistant Professor at the Economic Department of the University of Brasilia (1993-1994). |
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Coordinator of Technical Commissions |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Social security governance: Guideline and case studies, 1st week |
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Ariel Pino is a Coordinator of Technical Commissions at the International Social Security Association (ISSA). Previously, he was a Senior Analyst at the Secretariat of State for Social Security of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina. Currently, he is responsible for the planning and coordination of the projects of the ISSA Technical Commissions. He is also topical responsible in Financing of Social Security and manages projects of the Technical Commissions on the Investments of Social Security Funds of the ISSA. |
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Head of Social Policy at the OECD |
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Pension reforms and political process, 2nd week |
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Monika Queisser is the Head of Social Policy at the OECD. She is also one of the leading international experts in pension system analysis and pension reform. She has been working with governments in OECD countries advising them on pension system design and pension reform strategies since 1999. In 2007-8, she worked as an adviser to the OECD Secretary-General. |
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Social Security legal Specialist, International Labour Office |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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International Labour Standards: social security and social dialogue, 2nd week |
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Emmanuelle St-Pierre Guilbault is a legal specialist at the ILO social security department where she has been working on standards-related questions and legal issues since 2005. Prior to that she has worked in various departments of the ILO, on topics such as freedom of association and the right to organize, forced labour and labour administration. She is a lawyer, member of the Québec Bar since 2004 and holds a Masters of Public international Law (L.L.M.) from University College London (University of London) and a Law Degree (L.L.B.) from the University of Montréal. Emmanuelle particularly enjoys lecturing and has been participating in a number of courses at the ITC-Turin, the University of Maastricht, the Geneva academy of international humanitarian law and human rights and the University of Sherbrooke. |
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Senior Social Security Specialist for the Americas and the Caribbean, Social Security Department - International Labour Office |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Helmut Schwarzer, 43, joined the ILO in April 2010 as Senior Social Security Specialist for the Americas at the Social Security Department, based in Geneva. His previous positions were Social Security Secretary in Brazil (2003-2010) and Staff Researcher at IPEA (the Applied Economic Research Institute of the Brazilian Federal Government, 1998-2002). Helmut is an economist trained by the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil). |
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Joint Secretary, National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India |
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New Delhi, India |
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Ms. Amita Sharma is a 1981 batch IAS Officer of the Madhya Pradesh Cadre. She has worked in the field of basic education for the Government of Madhya Pradesh for over 12 years. She was instrumental in the formulation of the radical Education Guarantee Scheme that aimed at spreading education at minimal cost to remote villages and tribal pockets in Madhya Pradesh and won the Commonwealth Gold Award in the year 1998. She also headed the adult literacy programme in Madhya Pradesh that won the President’s Award. Recently she received the India Today Award for woman in Public Affairs for 2010. Since 2005 she continues to work as Joint Secretary – Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India The Scheme has received specific mention as a legal and social safety net in wake of the global economic meltdown. |
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Consultant |
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Bergisch Gladbach, Germany |
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Demographic and economic challenges, 1st week |
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Axel Weber, born in 1954, is a health and social protection economist with over 25 years of professional experience. He has studied Economics in Cologne (Germany) and Pennsylvania (USA). He has worked as expert in various national and international institutions, among them the German Ministry of Labor, the EU Commission and the Asian Development Bank, where he was Social Protection Specialist for 7 years until he retired end of 2008. He has broad experience in system design and - management and development of institutions in the area of social protection. He is author of various internationally known publications, among them a guidebook of how to develop social health insurance schemes. Since 2009, after his employment with ADB he was part of studies conducted by GTZ and ILO on social protection in Pakistan and in the Philippines. Mr. Weber currently is working as free lance expert for various institutions like GTZ, ILO and ADB. |
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Pensions Coordinator, Social Security Department - International Labour Office |
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Geneva, Switzerland |
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Pension reforms and political process, 2nd week |
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John is a qualified actuary. After studying mathematics, he worked in the U.K., firstly with a major life insurance company, and subsequently, through most of the 1980s, with an occupational pensions consultancy. In the early 1990s, while based in East Africa, he began working in the field of social security, participating in studies and projects conducted by the ILO and other agencies, concerned with the design and valuation of national social security programmes in a number of countries in Africa and Asia. In 1998, John joined the ILO staff to take up the position of Senior Social Security Specialist with the multi-disciplinary advisory team for South Asia, based in New Delhi, India, and since 2005 has held a similar post located in the ILO's Social Security Department at its headquarters in Geneva. |
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Head, Private Pensions Unit, Financial Affairs Division |
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Paris, France |
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Pension reforms and political process, 2nd week |
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Juan Yermo is currently Head of the Private Pensions Unit in the Financial Affairs Division of the OECD, which he joined in 1999. He manages the research and policy programme of the Working Party on Private Pensions, a body that brings together policymakers and the private sector from 37 countries around the world. His work covers issues related to the operation and regulation of privately managed retirement income systems. He has published various books and written articles for academic journals and is an editor of the OECD Private Pensions Outlook, OECD Pension Markets in Focus, and the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. He has also acted as a trustee of the OECD staff pension fund and as advisor on governance and pensions issues to the CFA Institute and pension funds of other international organizations. Previously, he worked at the World Bank as a consultant on capital markets and pension reform and as an analyst in the risk management department at Bankers Trust. |
