Skills and Employability Branch staff list

Headquarters

Srinivas B Reddy   Branch Chief

Technical and coordination support

Takaaki Kizu Skills Development Officer
Louise Mbabazi-Kamina Secretary

Global Programme on Skills and Lifelong Learning

Patrick Daru                                   Head of Operations
Sergio Iriarte Quezada Project Manager - Global Coordinator
Aparajita Singh Jr Programme and Operations Officer
Yukari Kanamori Jr. Professional Officer
   
   

Priority work areas of the Branch:

Skills development policies and systems
   
Pedro Moreno Da Fonseca Technical Specialist on Lifelong Learning
Karine Sonigo Skills Digitalisation Specialist

Work-based learning, apprenticeships and recognition of prior learning

   
Ashwani Aggarwal Senior Skills and Employability Specialist
De Miller Axelle Secretary
Jostock Jenni Junior Professional Officer
Grine Majda Project Junior Technical Officer

Skills strategies for future labour markets

   
Olga Strietska-Ilina Senior Skills and Employability Specialist
Bolormaa Tumurchudur-Klok Technical Specialist
Hae Kyeung Chun Jr. Professional Officer
Ng Lucas Technical Officer
   

Skills for social inclusion

     
Christine Hofmann Skills and Employability Specialist
Julien Varlin Jr. Technical Officer
Louise Mbabazi-Kamina Secretary

Skills and employability specialists in ILO field offices:

Africa

Ntéba Soumano Specialist, Skills and Employability,
DWT Yaoundé/CO-Kinshasa 
Maria Ilca Lima Webster
Specialist, Skills and Employability,
DWT/CO-Dakar
 
Laura Schmid Specialist, Skills and Employability, DWT/CO-Cairo
 
Alice Vozza Specialist, Skills and Employability, DWT/CO-Pretoria

Americas

Alvaro Ramirez Bogantes 
Skills and Enterprise Specialist,
DWT-San José
 
Hassan Ndahi Senior Specialist, Skills and Employability,
DWT-Port of Spain, Caribbean
 
Fernando Vargas Zuñiga Specialist, Vocational Training and Human Resources Development,
ILO/CINTERFOR, Montevideo

Arab States

Kishore Singh                      Senior Skills and Employability Specialist, RO/DWT-Beirut

Asia and Pacific

Akiko Sakamoto                Specialist, Skills and Employability,
DWT-Bangkok, Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands, Manila
Gabriel Bordado 
Specialist, Skills and Employability, DWT/CO-New Delhi
 
Julien Magnat Specialist, Skills and Employability, DWT-Bangkok

Europe

Alessandra Molz               Specialist, Skills and Employability,
DWT-Budapest
Mikhail Pouchkin
Specialist, Skills and Employability, DWT/CO-Moscow