Resource persons

Michael Cichon

Director, Social Security Department

International Labour Organization

Geneva, Switzerland

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.

Alejandro Bonilla García

Chief, Social Security Education, Training and Capacity Building, Social Security Department

International Labour Organization

Geneva, Switzerland

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.
He holds a Degree in Actuarial Sciences (Mexico); a Masters Degree in Mathematics Applied to Economics (France) and a PhD in Economic Policy and Regional Development (France).

Elsa Fornero

Professor of Economics, University of Turin

Scientific Coordinator, Centre for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies

Turin, Italy

Elsa Fornero is Professor of Economics at the University of Turin and Scientific Coordinator of CeRP (Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Systems, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin). She is Vice President of the Supervisory Board of Intesa Sanpaolo Bank.
She is a member of the steering committee of the doctoral programme in Economic Sciences at the University of Turin; she is part of a group of independent experts for the evaluation of pension expenditure at the Italian Ministry of Welfare and a member of the editorial board of the journal Rivista Italiana degli Economisti . She is op-ed writer for the Italian economic daily “Il Sole-24 ore.
Her fields of research cover public and private pension systems; pension reforms; population ageing; retirement choices; households saving; life insurance.

Dr. Mohamed Moait

Deputy Minister of Finance

Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Mohamed Moait is currently working as the Deputy Minister of the Egyptian ministry of Finance for Pensions and Social Insurance. Recently, he was appointed as the Chairman of the first Egyptian Governmental Actuarial Department (EGAD). Dr. Moait has been taking the national responsibility of preparing for the New Egyptian system of Pensions and Social Insurance which was officially issued under his supervision and by his team in June 2010. He is furthermore involved in the reform of the new social health insurance system in Egypt.
Dr. Moait had his PhD in Actuarial Science, City University, London, UK. Also, he has more than 23 years of teaching experience for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at many universities in Egypt, Sudan, UK.
He has a distinguish membership at many Organizations such as; member of the Institute of Actuaries London, UK; fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK; board member of the Egyptian Insurance Supervisory Authority (EISA); board member of Health Insurance Organization (HIO); member of the at the Egyptian Ministry of Manpower; member of the Insurance Policies, Investment, and Legal affairs committees at the National Organization for Social Insurance; member of the Committee responsible of Supervising the Actuarial Sciences Program at the faculty of commerce, Cairo University.

Ariel Pino

Coordinator of Technical Commissions
International Social Security Association

Geneva, Switzerland

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.
Ariel Pino is Argentinean and has a degree in Economics and postgraduate degrees in Public Economics and in Pension Plans and Funds.

Dr. Aviva Ron

Consultant
Health policy and social health insurance

Netanya, Israel

Aviva Ron obtained her Master and Doctor of Science degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, USA. From 1971 to 1989, she worked for the Health Insurance Fund of the General Federation of Labour, in Tel Aviv, Israel as Director of Planning and Information. During that period, she was also a lecturer in the Tel Aviv University Medical School. From 1989, Aviva was a consultant for the Social Security Department of the International Labour Organization, with the development of the social security system for Thailand as the major project. From 1991 to 1997, she worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva, providing technical support to developing countries in health care financing. In 1997 she went to Manila, as social security specialist in the South-East Asia ILO Office, and in 1999 was appointed Director of Health Sector Development, in the World Health Organization’s Office for the Western Pacific Region. Following retirement from WHO in 2002, she has been a consultant in health policy and social health insurance and resource person at the ILO Turin Training Centre.
Aviva Ron is the author and editor of several books and numerous publications in health services systems development and social health insurance.

Xenia Beatrice Scheil-Adlung

Health Policy Coordinator
International Labour Office

Geneva, Switzerland

Xenia Scheil-Adlung works at ILO’s Social Security Department as Health Policy Coordinator and focuses on health financing aspects at the global level.
Prior to this position, Ms Scheil-Adlung worked as Programme Manager Health at the International Social Security Association and was Head of Division of the German Government’s Federal Ministry of Youth, Family, Women and Health.
Xenia Scheil-Adlung graduated from the Free University Berlin with a PhD in Economics and a Master in Political Science.

Juan Yermo Fuentes-Pila

Head, Private Pensions Unit, Financial Affairs Division

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Paris, France

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.
Mr. Yermo has a Masters Degree in economics from Cambridge University and doctoral studies (MPhil) in economics and finance from Oxford University.

Hannah Monica Yesudian Dias

Technical officer, Stop TB Department

World Health Organization

Geneva, Switzerland

Hannah Monica Yesudian Dias is a technical officer at the Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization. She is part of the team that is responsible for the implementation of innovative policies and strategies to expand the delivery of services for TB care and control within the context of strengthening of health systems to promote universal access to health care. Specifically, she facilitates the involvement of all public and private care providers especially the business sector, in the control of TB.
Monica previously worked at the International Trade Centre in Geneva on HIV and trade issues. She also worked at Panos London on the monitoring of progress made in implementing the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. Prior to this she served as a health promotion manager at a private hospital in Mumbai, India.
Monica holds a bachelor's degree in Microbiology and Biochemistry, from the University of Mumbai, India; a MBA degree from Fr. Agnel's Business School in India; and a master's degree in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics.

Afsar Syed Mohammed

Senior Technical Specialist, ILO-AIDS

International Labour Office

Geneva, Switzerland

Afsar Syed Mohammad is working with the ILO’s Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, Geneva as Senior Technical Specialist (HIV/AIDS), heading Partnerships, Training, Communication and Resource Mobilization units of the programme. He has been with the ILO for 11 years, with extensive experience in field. He headed the ILO’s HIV/AIDS project in India and worked as Technical Specialist for the South Asia region.
Before ILO, he has also worked as Programme Director of the Regional Management Unit under the Department for International Development’s (DFID), Healthy Highways Project in India. This project aimed at prevention of STI and HIV among inter-city truck drivers and commercial sex workers. He has also worked with Catholic Relief Services India as the Technical Adviser for HIV/AIDS.
He has professional qualification in Management as well as Mass Communication and Journalism, besides having Masters in Mathematics. He has also been trained in Family Health Communication at the John Hopkins University Centre for Communication Programme at Baltimore, USA.

Luis Manuel Alves Dias

Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Instituto Superor Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon (UTL)

Lisbon, Portugal

Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon. He is Professor of construction management related areas at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the IST. From 1997 to 2006 he served as general coordinator of the post-graduate course on Management and Coordination of Safety and Health in Construction. Furthermore, Luis Alves Dias works as a consultant in construction management, in particular on occupational safety and health management systems. Since 1999 he has been involved as Vice-president in the Construction Section of the International Social Security Association. Since 2003 he has collaborated with the Programme SafeWork and the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization.

Javier Alberto Barbero Marcos

Director

Asistencia Integral en Prevencion

Valladolid, Spain

Javier Alberto Barbero Marcos holds a degree in Law from the University of Valladolid. After graduating he worked as a Labour Inspector. Later he took the position as Assistant to the Coordinator of international labour standards and international technical cooperation at the International Labour Organization. He worked as Technical Advisor at the department of international social relations at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security before he was appointed Head of the Provincial Labour Inspection in Valladolid in 1993. In parallel he was Professor at the law faculty of the University of Valladolid.
Currently, Javier Alberto Barbero Marcos is the Director of Asistencia Integral en Prevencion SA, a consulting firm providing occupational safety and health services to companies and organizations.

Aikaterini Davari

Occupational physician

Turin, Italy

Dr. Aikaterini Davari is an occupational physician, she holds a Degree in Medicine and a Specialization Diploma in Occupational Health from Turin University. In her theses she studies occupational and environmental factors in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She works as occupational health adviser of several companies.
From 2007 she worked as a tutor for occupational safety and health courses at the International Training Center of the ILO in Turin Ms Davari is the author of several publications on occupational health.

Antonio Rodríguez de Prada

Technical Advisor to the Executive Director

Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo

Madrid, Spain

Antonio Rodríguez de Prada graduated in physical sciences from the University of Santander. He joined the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at Work (INSHT) in Madrid in 1992 where he worked as Technician for Prevention at the National Center for New Technologies. In 1993 he was appointed Director of the Safety Program at the Center and later became Head of Inspection Services. He spent five years at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and at the Ministry of Finance as Head of Prevention Services before he returned to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at Work (INSHT) to take the position as Director of the National Center for New Technologies. Currently he works as Technical Advisor to the Executive Director of the INSHT in Madrid.

Elena Herrero Hernandez

Occupational Health Physician

OHSU-CROET

Portland, Oregon USA

Elena Herrero Hernandez holds a Degree in Medicine and a Specialization Degree in Occupational Medicine from the University of Turin as well as a PhD in Pharmacology and Social-Environmental Toxicology from the University of Palermo.
After her graduation, she worked as trainee in occupational health and later as research collaborator at the Department of Traumatology, Orthopedics & Occupational Medicine of the University of Turin. In 2007 she took the position as staff scientist at the Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Currently, Elena Herrero Hernandez is a senior fellow at the Center for Public Service at Portland State University and a visiting professor at the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics at Oregon Health & Science University.

Geoff Hornby

Lead Lecturer in the Professional Development Programme

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health

Leicestershire, UK

Geoff Hornby holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Hygiene. Over the last 12 years he provided IOSH Professional Development training to many of the major companies in the UK and Europe. Furthermore, his responsibilities include investigations of fatal and serious accidents as well as the provision of technical evidence for Coroners Courts and Crown Court prosecutions. Previously, Geoff Hornby was involved with the ILO as a specialist auditor of Health and Safety standards within the Chemical industries of Greece.
Currently, Geoff Hornby is the Lead Lecturer in the Professional Development programme of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

Peter Hurst

International Consultant on OSH, Labour Inspection, and agricultural/rural labour issues

Geneva, Switzerland

Peter Hurst holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Sheffield and Post-Graduate Diploma in Crop Protection and in Occupational Health and Safety.
On graduating, he worked as a UK Health and Safety Inspector and later as National Health, Safety and Environment Specialist at the Transport and General Workers Union. At the World Wide Fund for Nature International he was promoted Head of the Resource, Consumption and Pollution Programme. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as a Policy Programme Officer in the Health and Safety Branch of the International Labour Organization, before joining the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) as their Global Safety and Health Project Officer. From 2003 to 2009 Mr Hurst worked the Occupational Safety and Health Specialist with the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) of the International Labour Organization. He joined the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International in October 2009 as Head of Workers Rights and Trade Union Relations.

Carlos Aníbal Rodriguez

Doctor in Occupational Medicine

Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Province of Santa Fe

Santa Fe, Argentinia

Dr. Carlos Aníbal Rodriguez worked as a medical practitioner for ten years before he became Director of the Center of Occupational Health of Cornellá del Llobregat in Spain. He worked as Professor at the faculty of social sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. He has collaborated in different project and activities of the World Health Organization and the International Labour Organization. He was the CTA of the project “Promoting Occupational Safety and Health Security in Agriculture in Central America” of the ILO. He served as National Director of Health and Safety at the workplace at the Ministry of Labour twice from 1984 to 1989 and from 1994 to 1996; as adviser of the Secretariat for Labour of the Province of Buenos Aires and from 2003 to 2006 as manager of the Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo. He was appointed Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Province of Santa Fe in 2007.

Tony Smith

International consultant on OSH

London, UK

Tony Smith holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science, with a major in Psychology and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Health and Safety.
He served as Resident Manager for Foster Wheeler Management Operations, where he was responsible for safety and health, human resources and compliance issues for operations in the Indian Sub-Continent and Asia-Pacific region. As a Senior Executive in the Labor Department of the United Kingdom, he represented the UK on various Working Committees of the European Union. Since joining the National Safety Council in 1993 as Executive Director of International Operations, he has provided customized training and consulting services to the U.S. Government, The United Nations, The International Labour Organization, and the Governments of Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Tunisia. He has also worked as a Consultant for a number of major multinational companies.

Giulio Andrea Tozzi

Inspector, Heath & Safety at Work

ASL 3 “Genovese”

Genoa, Italy

Giulio Andrea Tozzi graduated in Chemistry and in Hygiene from the University of Genoa. He has specialized on occupational safety and health; information, communication, and campaigning on OSH are among their main interests. From 1997 to 1999 he served as research officer at the European Trade Union Technical Bureau in Brussels where he was responsible for research mainly on chemicals issues.
Since 1999, Giulio Andrea Tozzi works as occupational health and safety inspector at Azienda Sanitaria Locale 3 "Genovese". Among his duties he conducts criminal investigations on work accidents and occupational diseases and gave courses on OHS to workers' representatives. He collaborates in the national network of REACH.