ELS Skills Team

	Glenda Quintini is a senior economist at OECD and the head of the Skills Team. She oversees the analysis of how skill needs are changing in the labour market and the research into effective policy responses, particularly in the area of adult learning and on-the-job training. Under Glenda’s supervision, the team provides advice and technical assistance to countries on their skills-related policies, carries out comparative analysis, covering both OECD and developing countries, and contributes to the development and analysis of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and the accompanying employer module on skill gaps. Over the years, Glenda has devoted a lot of attention to issues of skills mismatch, skills use at work, work-based learning and automation. Glenda holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford.
	Julie Lassébie is a Junior Labour Market Economist, specialized in applied microeconomics and econometrics. She joined the Skills Team within the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs in 2019. There, she works on projects using big data and novel data sources to understand future skill needs. She leads a project looking at changes in the risk of job automation as a result of progress in AI and robotics. She also provides technical assistance to governments of several OECD countries to help them develop better and more resilient adult learning systems. She obtained a PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics in 2018. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the European Journal of Political Economy.
	Anja Meierkord is a Labour Market Economist at the OECD. Her work focuses on changing skill needs in the context of longer working lives, technological change, globalisation and the green transition and on what governments can do to prepare for these changes. Recent projects include cross-country and country-specific analyses on future-ready adult learning systems, training in enterprises and successful reforms to increase adult learning participation. Prior to joining the OECD in 2017, she was Associate Director at the research consultancy Ecorys in London. She has also worked for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin and the Administration of the Berlin Senate. Anja holds an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and a PGCert in Econometrics from Birkbeck College London.
	Katharine Mullock is a Labour Market Economist in the Skills Team within the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. She joined the OECD in 2016. Recent cross-country work include analyses of career guidance for adults and skills anticipation in the heath workforce. She has also carried out country-specific analyses on future-ready adult learning, career guidance for adults, and skills assessment and anticipation. Katharine holds a Masters in Economics from the University of British Colombia in Canada. Prior to joining the OECD, she was a research economist at Canada’s Department of Finance, providing strategic advice to the Minister on issues relating to income inequality, skills mismatch, and retirement income adequacy.
	Patricia Navarro-Palau is a Labour Market Economist at the ELS Skills Team, where she analyses adult learning systems and how they adapt to labour market trends. Recent projects include the development of a skills profiling tool, the analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on career guidance systems and the identification of innovations in adult learning systems. Prior to joining the OECD, Patricia worked in the Inter-American Development Bank, CRA International and NERA Economic Consulting. Patricia holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.
	Stefano Piano is a Labour Market Economist at the OECD. Since joining the ELS Skills Team, hehas focused on understanding how governments can increase training in enterprises and improve the dissemination of information on current and future skills needs, especially in the context of the digital and green transition. In his previous assignments at the OECD, he has advised countries on a wide range of skills policy issues, such as how to strengthen VET and higher education policies, raise participation in adult learning and improve the governance of the skills system. Prior to joining the OECD, he advised several UK and international government departments on labour market and skills policies, while working as an economist for Frontier Economics in London and Paris. Stefano completed postgraduate studies in Economics at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences as a Rotary Scholar.
	Dzana Topalovic joined the ELS Skills Team as a Labour Market Economist in 2021. Her work focuses on policy responses to changing skills needs. Recent work include country-specific analysis of career guidance and training, with a focus on analysing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adult learning. Before joining the OECD, Dzana worked as a consultant at EY. She holds a joint MA in Economics and International Relations from the University of St Andrews and Masters in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris.
	Michele Tuccio joined the ELS Skills Team as Economist in 2019. His work focuses on the analysis of adult training policies and labour market trends, with a particular attention to socio-professional integration and inclusiveness. He currently coordinates several OECD technical support projects on the implementation of adult learning systems reforms. His most recent projects span from setting up quality assurance mechanisms for non-formal learning in the Netherlands and Belgium to improving the existing recognition of prior learning system of Italy. Before joining the OECD, Michele worked for the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton and a MPhil in International Economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Skills and Work

ELS Skills Team