Ms Olga Strietska is Head of Future Skills Unit at the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Olga has been working 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. This work includes integrating skills strategies in employment policy, Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED), skills for green jobs and environmental sustainability, and impact of digitalisation on jobs and skills. Before joining the ILO, Olga worked for the European Union’s Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) as an expert on forecasting skill needs. Between 1996 and 2003 she was Head of Czech National Observatory of Employment and Training in the Czech Republic. She started her career teaching at the Central European University, European Studies and International Relations. Olga holds post-graduate degrees in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Manchester, UK, and in Society and Politics from the Central European University – Prague College, and History and Social Anthropology from the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov.

