Our guest speaker is Maria Prieto, Employment and future ofwork specialist in the INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO) in Employment Policy Department (EMPLYMENT/EMPLAB).  In hercurrent position, she works on the two interrelated strategic topics of youth employment and digitalization. Maria coordinates the implementation of theILO’s Governing Body approved Youth Employment Action Plan 2020-30, as well as leads the work on digitalisation in the context of national employment policies.

Previously, Maria worked as a Specialist in the ILO’s Future of Work Initiative, where she provided technical support to the Global Commission on the Future of Work and to the work of the ILO on the subject. Maria has more than eighteen years of professional experience in the United Nations (ILO and UNDP) in positions that included thematic areas such as youth employment, digitalisation, local economic and social development, public-private partnerships for urban environment, small and micro enterprises, informal economy and infrastructure development.