Former Senior Officer at the Finnish Ministry of Labour/Employment and the Economy with more than 30 years of experience from labour market issues, employment policy making, Public Employment Services (PES), Active Labour Market Policies/Programmes/Measures (ALMP/M), Labour Market Information/Labour Market Information Systems (LMI/LMIS) and European Social Fund (ESF).

Experience from several Technical Assistance assignments including Poland (KE/STE 2003-2005), Latvia (TL 2004-2005), Kyrgyzstan (KE 2005-2007; STE 2022), Syria (KE 2006), Montenegro (STE 2007), North Macedonia (TL 2007-2009), Kosovo (STE 2009), Armenia (STE 2010) Turkey (KE 2010-2011), Albania (KE 2012-2013, STE 2016-2017), Rwanda (2014-2015), Azerbaijan (STE 2015-2016; TL 2021-2023), Mongolia (STE 2015-2016), North Cyprus (STE/KE 2017-2018) and Laos (KE 2017-2019), Uzbekistan (2019), Ghana (KE 2019 - 2021), Jordan (STE 2022-2023), Tajikistan (KE 2021-2024), Pakistan (2023-2025). Donor experience: EU, ILO, GIZ, ADB, WB, SDC.

Areas of expertise: Labour Market and Employment policy issues, Public Employment Services (PES), Active Labour Market Policies/Programmes/Measures (ALMP/ALMM), employment of persons with disabilities (PWD), career/job counselling services, job matching/placement services, designing and delivering staff training, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), TA project/programme design/development/management (PCM), EU Twinning project preparation, writing technical proposals/project preparation and assessment of project/grant proposals.

Master of Education (Educational Administration, Planning and Research); Master of Science (Applied Labour Economics for Development).