Copy - Meet the Team EEP 2024

Minako Takasaki

Sanela Mešanović

Personnes ressources

Les organisateurs

Notre équipe

Valeria Esquivel

Eleonore D’Achon

Bernd Mueller

Maria Prieto

Drew Gardiner

Dorothea Schmidt-Klau

Anna-Karin Palm Olsson

Shiho Nakamura

Shiho Nakamura

Giulia Melina

Alex Bizzotto

The Organizers

Yadong Wang

Kee Beoum Kim

Mauricio Dierckxsens

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Resource persons

Meet the Team

Shiho Nakamura is a Programme Officer at the Employment Policy and Analysis Programme of the ITC-ILO. Prior to joining the ITC-ILO, she worked as a government official in Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan for over eleven years. Her career concentrates on planning and implementing employment public policy. Her areas of expertise and research interests include lifelong learning, youth employment, employment policies in aging society, and public employment services. Shiho received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Yokohama National University and a Master in Psychology in Kanazawa Institute of Technology. She is a certified public psychologist.

DOROTHEA SCHMIDT-KLAU Before becoming Chief of the Employment, Labour Markets and Youth (EMPLAB) Branch of the Employment Policy Department in the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Dorothea Schmidt-Klau was the Head of the Department Management and Coordination Unit of the Department. In both functions, she supported the work of the Department to promote full and productive employment by developing integrated employment, development and skills policies. She was the Senior Employment Specialist for North Africa, based in the Decent Work Country Team for North Africa in Cairo between 2009 and 2013. She worked with Governments, Employers’, Workers’ Organizations and other key stakeholders providing advice on analytical work, policy development and advocacy on employment-related issues. Ms Schmidt has published extensively in the area of family economics during her time as a research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany. Since then her work continued to have a strong gender focus. Other areas of expertise include poverty reduction, youth employment, ageing societies, employment policies, labour market transitions, labour market information systems and labour market indicators. She has worked on many major ILO publications, including several World Employment Reports, Global Employment Trends Reports and most recently the ILO’s COVID-19 Monitors. She has also published numerous working papers and articles in her areas of expertise. Ms Schmidt-Klau holds a PhD in Economics from Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg.

Valeria Esquivel is Employment Policies and Gender Specialist at the International Labour Office (ILO), based in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, Valeria was Research Coordinator on Gender and Development at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Before joining the United Nations, Valeria developed a long academic career as feminist economist, publishing extensively on labour, macroeconomic and social policies. Her latest publications have focused primarily on care policies and care workers. She is co-author of the recent report Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work (OIT, 2018), and of Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2017). In 2016, she edited the Gender & Development issue devoted to the SDGs (Vol. 24, No. 1). Valeria is on leave of absence from her positions as Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, and as Researcher at CONICET (Argentina). She is economist from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (UBA) and earned an MSc and a PhD in economics from the University of London.

Valeria Esquivel is Employment Policies and Gender Specialist at the International Labour Office (ILO), based in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, Valeria was Research Coordinator on Gender and Development at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Before joining the United Nations, Valeria developed a long academic career as feminist economist, publishing extensively on labour, macroeconomic and social policies. Her latest publications have focused primarily on care policies and care workers. She is co-author of the recent report Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work (OIT, 2018), and of Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2017). In 2016, she edited the Gender & Development issue devoted to the SDGs (Vol. 24, No. 1). Valeria is on leave of absence from her positions as Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, and as Researcher at CONICET (Argentina). She is economist from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (UBA) and earned an MSc and a PhD in economics from the University of London.

Valeria Esquivel is Employment Policies and Gender Specialist at the International Labour Office (ILO), based in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, Valeria was Research Coordinator on Gender and Development at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Before joining the United Nations, Valeria developed a long academic career as feminist economist, publishing extensively on labour, macroeconomic and social policies. Her latest publications have focused primarily on care policies and care workers. She is co-author of the recent report Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work (OIT, 2018), and of Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2017). In 2016, she edited the Gender & Development issue devoted to the SDGs (Vol. 24, No. 1). Valeria is on leave of absence from her positions as Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, and as Researcher at CONICET (Argentina). She is economist from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (UBA) and earned an MSc and a PhD in economics from the University of London.