CMI – Cairo workshop on Employment Cairo (1 to 3 October 2012)
BIOGRAPHIES Mhammed ABDEREBBI
Mhammed ABDEREBBI is a Moroccan international expert specialized in the integration of young people and social mobilization. Research professor at the University Hassan IIMohammedia, Mr. Abderebbi holds more than ten years of experience in the field of realization of sociological surveys and animation workshops for the benefit of institutional actors and society civil. He has a proven ability to communicate and publish content on the integration of young people and an experience of group facilitation. Mr. Abderebbi has conducted numerous studies based on interviews and focus groups with young people.. He is also : - Education Coordinator and founder of two professional bachelors degree in Social Work and Social Development Officer since September 2006. - Member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research on Society and Economy (LISE), accredited by the CNRST. - Member of the laboratory Interdisciplinary Society and Economy. Research unit associated with CNRST since September 2008. - Member of the Moroccan Association of Sociology since 2007. He speaks French, Arabic and English. Mona Amer is a labor economist and a specialist of the Egyptian and Jordanian labor markets. Her work focuses of labor market insertion, school-to-work transition, youth employment, female employment and formal/informal employment. She is also the coordinator of the French Section of the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University, and teaches mainly Economics Methodology and Labor Economics. She holds a Master in Applied Microeconomics from Paris 1 University and a Master in Economic Demographie from Sciences Po Paris. She speaks French, English and Arabic
Shahla Amini Lassus is the Head of International Relations at the Second Chance School in Marseilles since 2007. She is in charge of developing a new concept in the South Mediterranean countries under the name of “New Chance Schools”. Before that, she served as the Director of Saku-Shima, an Export-Import Company based in Phoenix, Arizona, was the Director of the International Center for Foreign Students, in Miami, Florida, was a Consultant and a teacher assistant at the University of Distance Learning, in Lanzarote, Canary Islands (Spain), and initially, she worked as a System Analyst at Valisère (Rhodia Ceta / Rhône Poulenc), Santo Andre (Brazil). During her studies she also worked as a teacher assistant at the University of AixMarseilles. She holds a Master of Economic Sciences degree from University of Aix-Marseilles and her long international experience, allows Shahla Amini Lassus to be fluent in five languages: French, Spanish, English, Portuguese and Farsi. Ummuhan Bardak is a labour market specialist working in the European Training Foundation (ETF) since 2004, a specialised EU agency based in Italy. She studied political science and international relations, completed her master’s degree at the London School of Economics, and worked on employment policies at the Turkish Ministry of Labour for seven years. In the ETF, she was involved in the implementation of MEDA-ETE Education and Training for Employment Programme and led the labour market analysis of the Mediterranean countries, producing biannual UfM Regional Employability Reviews. She also worked on the labour market review of the Eastern Partnership region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) and flexicurity and lifelong learning in Turkey. Currently she is involved the skill dimension of labour migration through conducting specific surveys with potential and returning migrants in some sending countries from the ENP South and ENP East. Yasser El Gammal
Yasser El Gammal an Egyptian and Canadian national, joined the World Bank in 1996. He has worked in the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Central Asia, and Africa Regions on human development issues while leading major flagship operations in social protection and labor. His current assignment is Social Protection and Labor Sector Manager in the Human Development Group in MENA. He served as a member of the World Bank’s Social Safety Net (SSN) Global Expert Team (GET) and has worked extensively on social protection and labor issues in the last 17 years in over 15 countries. Prior to the World Bank, Mr. El-Gammal worked with an international NGO and with the Social Fund for Development in Egypt. He has a M.Sc degree in National Development and Project Planning from the University of Bradford, the UK.
Hafez Ghanem Hafez Ghanem – who holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis – is a development expert with extensive experience in policy analysis, project formulation and supervision and management of multinational institutions. He has worked in over 21 countries in Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa and South East Asia. He joined the Brookings Institution in 2012 as a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program to lead the Arab economies project. During the period 2007-12 he worked at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as the Assistant Director-General responsible for the Economic and Social Development Department. This Department, with more than 300 employees from all over the world, is responsible for FAO’s analytical work on agricultural economics and food security, trade and markets, gender and equity, and statistics. Prior to joining FAO, he spent twenty-four years on the staff of the World Bank where he started as a research economist and then senior economist in West Africa and later South Asia. In 1995, he moved to Europe and Central Asia where he was Sector Leader for Public Economics and Trade Policy. In 2000, he returned to Africa as Country Director for Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles. In 2004, he became Country Director for Nigeria where he led a multinational team of more than 100 professionals, managing the Bank’s loan portfolio of some USD 1.5 billion. He has many publications in professional journals and was a member of the core team that produced the 1995 World Development Report. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French. Huitfeldt Henrik
Huitfeldt Henrik on secondment from Sida, he is working as a en expert on employment in the Unit of Employment, Social Inclusion and Migration at the EuropeAid Development and Cooperation Directorate General in the European Commission. Developing policy and advising to improve the quality of EuropeAid programmes and projects in the field of employment with a particular focus on the European Neighbourhood and Africa. Preparing policy documents, guidelines, briefing notes and working papers related to employment and liaising with international stakeholders such as the ILO, African Union Commission, the World Bank and EU member states’ donor agencies
Christine Hofmann has been working for the ILO Skills and Employability Department since 2006, and provides technical support on skills development issues in the ILO?s Decent Work Team for North Africa since August 2012. She co-authored the book Skills for green jobs. A global view, arising from a global policy-applied research project covering 21 countries worldwide, in collaboration with the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop). Christine also participated in global and regional-level research on skills development policies and systems, workplace learning and skills identification, analyzing sector studies, methodologies and approaches. Apart from doing research, Christine has developed a resource guide on upgrading informal apprenticeship in Africa, delivers trainings and advises technical cooperation projects in countries in Asia and Africa. Before joining the ILO, she worked in political consulting and coordinated development projects for trade unions in Africa and Asia for a German labour foundation. She holds a degree in International Business and Area Studies. Jean-Louis REIFFERS is the President of the Scientific Committee of Femise (Euro-Mediterranean Forum of the Institutes of Economic sciences) and the President of the School of Second Chance of Marseilles. He is the Founder and Vice president of OCEMO (Office of Economic Cooperation for the Mediterranean and the Orient) He is a Professor at the School of Euromed Management and an Emeritus Professor at the University of South Toulon Var. Experience He served as Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Aix- Marseille. He is the Founder and Director of Cefi (Center of Economics and International Finances affiliated at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Doctoral program. He serves as the Principal Adviser to the French Prime Minister on Education and Training He was the General Director of the National School of Export in Paris and the chairman of the group of high level think tank for the European Commission, in that job he’s been in charge of the redaction of the European White Paper « Teaching and Learning towards the Knowledge Society, Report of the Study Group “Accomplishing Europe through Education and Training” He has also conducted many international missions including the World Bank, ILO and UNESCO. He holds a PHD in Economic Sciences and he is aggregated of higher education in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Aix-Marseilles.
Gita SUBRAHMANYAM
Gita Subrahmanyam is Research Associate with the Public Policy Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has a long association with the LSE: she completed a PhD in Government and MSc in Public Policy and Administration at the School, has taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and until recently was Development Adviser to PhD Students and Postdoctoral Research Staff. In addition, Gita provides practical policy advice to international organisations and government agencies; her consultancy clients have included African Development Bank, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Transparency International and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Gita has published work in a variety of formats, including several policy papers and reports on youth employment and educational investments. She is currently working on a book chapter titled ‘Successful youth employment initiatives in India and Chile: Applicability to other emerging market economies’ for an edited volume to be published by Springer in 2013.
Jean-Pierre Worms Co-founder and Vice President of France Initiative, President of France Initiative International Commission Sociologist associated with creation and development of the Centre for Organisational Sociology (Centre de sociologie des organisations) with Michel Crozier,director ; “Harkness Fellow” in Berkeley and Harvard (USA). Various political responsibilities in local and regional government at the French National Assembly and at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. Various responsibilities in voluntary organisations dealing with human and civic rights, local development and job creation.