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Sher Singh Verick is Head of the Employment Strategies Unit in the Employment Policy Department of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. Prior to this position, he was Manager of the Employment Policy and Analysis Programme of the International Training Centre of the ILO and Deputy Director of the ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India. He has also worked for the UN and various research institutions in Europe and Australia. He holds a master’s degree in development economics from the Australian National University and a doctorate in economics from the University of Bonn. Since December 2004, he is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA). He has published in a range of journals and has authored or edited a number of volumes, including the Transformation of Women at Work in Asia: An Unfinished Development Agenda (2016).

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Honors

Helen Hughes Prize
Australian National University (Australia, Canberra) - ANU, 1999

Organizational Affiliations

Past Affiliations

Institute of Labour Economics (IZA)

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, Australia

Centre for Agricultural, Food & Resource Economics, University of Manchester, UK

Education

Economics
Doctorate (Magna cum Laude), Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and University of Bonn, Germany

2002 -2004

Economics of Development
Master, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

1998 - 1999

Economics of Development
Graduate Certificate , Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

1998

Arts and Science
Bachelor, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

1991 - 1995