Laura Addati

Laura Addati is a senior care policy specialist and coordinates ILO’s global policy research and technical assistance to governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations on care policies and gender equality at work at the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch (GEDI), at the Conditions of Work and Equality Department, of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. She coordinates the Office’s implementation of the Follow-up Plan of Action to the Resolution concerning decent work and the care economy (June 2024).

Laura joined the ILO in 2004 and has coordinated and authored several ILO reports and publications on the care economy, care leave, childcare services and work-life balance policies, including the ILO major reports “Care at Work: Investing in care leave and services for a more gender equal world of work” (2022) and “Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work” (2018). She has also led the development of the “ILO Care Policy Portal and Investment Simulator”, the largest online care policy-modelling tool, and the South-4-Cara Platform, to assist ILO constituents in the implementation of the ILO Care Economy Resolution. Laura has over 20 years of experience within the UN system, including the UNDP in the Comoros Union and the ILO in Central America, Geneva and New York.