In a world of work marked by overlapping crises, inequalities are multiplying - both between and within countries. The very concept of growth is challenged, and needs to incorporate a human-centred, inclusive perspective, fostered by social dialogue and cross-sectorial cooperation. 

How to identify and overcome the barriers that prevent access to the labour market? How can skills development programmes re-balance inequalities? How can we make sure that skills provision matches both the needs of the labour market and the personal aspirations of real individuals?

Bolormaa Tumurchudur-Klok, Skills specialist at the International Labour Organization, will outline the many challenges through this path, but also the great opportunities offered by focusing on skills, as a major enabler to mould a better and just future.

Bolormaa Tumurchudur-Klok is a Technical Specialist at the Employment Policy, Job Creation and Livelihoods Department (Skills and Employability Branch) of the International Labour Office in Geneva. She is a co-team member of the work area Skills Strategies for Future Labour Markets, focusing on anticipating skills needed for the Future of Work, skills for trade and economic diversification, skills for environmental sustainability and climate action, and skills for technological change and digitalisation.

Her main work focuses on policy advice, research, tools and technical assistance to ILO constituents in the field of skills needs anticipation and matching as part of national and sectoral policies and strategies. She also leads the work on Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) programme that comprises country and sector-level research and capacity-building activities concerning the nexus between skills, trade and employment.

Prior to the ILO, she was an Economic Affairs Officer at the Trade Analysis Branch of the UNCTAD from 2007 to 2012. She received a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Lausanne (HEC) in 2007, and a master’s degree in international economics from the Graduate Institute of Geneva (HEI) in 1999.