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Tsepiso Makwetla is a news and current affairs anchor for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) News. Tsepiso has been with the public broadcaster for almost ten years and has anchored a variety of flagship television and radio shows, including Interface, the News at 7, 60 Minutes Live in Africa on SABC Africa, AM and PM Live, and Midday Live on SAFM. Tsepiso also co-hosts SAFM’s drive time Current Affairs programme every week day. Tsepiso has a keen interest in African politics which has

led her to cover various issues across the continent, including elections in South Africa, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana.

Andrea Nahles is the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Germany and G20 representative. Germany, known for its Vocational Education and Training (VET) dual system, places more than half of all school graduates into apprenticeships every year. The government and the public employment services allocate a lot of resources to support young people who have learning difficulties or are socially disadvantaged and who would not find vocational training or a job without the assistance, both on

a federal and municipal level. In general, the situation for young jobseekers is quite positive in Germany - compared to the rather severe situation in other parts of Europe. However, even in Germany there are challenges that must be tackled e.g. the demographic developments that make constant adaptation necessary. Although many companies are now desperately looking for trainees, many training places still remain unfilled. Another crucial point for Andrea Nahles: A better transition from school to work. How can Germany ensure that no one is left behind, that everyone gets his chance within the dual system?

Shea Gopaul is the Founder and Executive Director of the Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN), a coalition of companies and organizations addressing the skills mismatch and youth unemployment crisis. She led the ILO Study that led to the setting up the GAN and has over 20 years of experience within the UN system (ILO, UN, WHO). She worked at the senior level in areas of youth employment, strategic planning, human resources and external relations management, including public-

private partnerships. She has worked in the public and private sectors in Mauritius, Gabon and Morocco. An accomplished classical ballet dancer, she remains active in the art world and is on the Board of Directors of Battery Dance Company in New York, which uses dance to foster intercultural exchange and understanding.

Pathways to Youth Employment – Apprenticeships and Work-based Training Speaker Biographies

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Linda Kromjong is the Secretary General of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE). With a membership of over 150 employer organizations, the IOE supports and represents the worldwide business community in international labour and social policy forums across the multilateral system, and in other high-level forums such as the G20, with the aim of ensuring that such policy promotes the viability of business. Prior to her role at the IOE, Linda Kromjong was Vice-President, Labor

Relations International & Human Rights for Deutsche Post DHL Group, the recognized world leader in logistics services. Linda Kromjong serves as a member of the Advisory Boards of the UN Global Compact, Mega Sporting Events (MSE) platform for Business & Human Rights and UNHRC Livelihood, as member of the UNGC -GRI “Reporting on the SDGs” Advisory Committee and is member of the Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) Board.

Sharan Burrow is the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). She held the position of ITUC President since its Founding Congress in Vienna (2006) and the position of ICFTU President since its 18th World Congress in Miyazaki (November 2004). She is the first woman to hold any of these positions. Recognising the significance of her election as the first female leader of the world's largest international trade union organization, Sharan stressed the necessity of female participation in organised labour and inclusion of women in the workplace.

William Mzimba is CEO of Accenture South Africa. During his more than 22-year career, he has obtained invaluable experience in various industries including government, utilities, manufacturing, information technology and telecommunications. During his tenure, Accenture South Africa has grown consistently, becoming one of Accenture’s 10 Priority Emerging Markets. Accenture’s initiative “Skills to Succeed” is advancing employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for individuals by using

technology to drive impact at scale. Across Africa, Accenture partners with non-profits like Junior Achievement, Mentec Foundation and RLabs to equip and support entrepreneurs, so they can run successful businesses. Among others, William is Chief Executive of Accenture South Africa and Chairman of Accenture sub-Saharan Africa, serves on the global Accenture Corporate Citizenship Council, is Non-Executive Chairman of Foodbank South Africa and sits on the Business Unity South Africa Board of Trustees.

Nkosi, Sango Patekile Holomisa, MP is the Deputy Minister of Labour of South Africa, as well the Traditional leader of the Hegebe Clan in Mqanduli. He is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and has been an African National Congress Member of Parliament since 1994. The Deputy Minister is currently Chairman of the Southern African Development Community Council of Traditional Leaders (SADC-CTL), Hegebe Cultural Development Trust Board, Contralesa Development Trust Board, Contralesa Investment

Holdings Board, Misty Seas Investments Board. The Deputy Minister is a public speaker and a

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prolific writer on cultural, developmental, economic, governance and political issues. He has

penned two books: According to Tradition and A Double Edged Sword.

Tom Ryan is a member of DesignThinkers Academy and Emeritus

Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. Tom is one of South

Africa’s leading innovators in the field of executive development and has been coaching executives through Action Learning Programs for over 16

years at the UCT Graduate School of Business where he was Director of

the Executive MBA program. Ryan regularly ploughs this knowledge and

expertise back into the corporate sector, not only through the Executive

MBA programme, but via the numerous seminars and workshops he personally facilitates. He

consults extensively to a number of corporates in South Africa in the fields of strategic planning

and scenario thinking.

Jacqueline Mugo is the Executive Director of the Federation of Kenya

Employers, Kenya’s leading employers’ organization in advocacy, industrial relations, employment laws and related value-add services through

management, consultancy and training. Jacqueline is also board member

of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization and the

International Organization of Employers. She is a lawyer with extensive

experience in senior management roles in the public and private sector

and plays a key role in advocacy on socio-economic issues.

Stefano Scarpetta is Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at

the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He

has led several large-scale research projects, including: "Implementing the

OECD Jobs Strategy"; the "Sources of Economic Growth in OECD

Countries"; and contributed to others including “The Policy Challenges of Population Ageing" and “The Effects of Product Market Competition on Productivity and Labour Market Outcomes”. He previously worked at the

World Bank, where he took over the responsibility of labour market advisor and lead economist. In

this capacity, he coordinated a Bank-wide research program of Employment and Development and

contributed extensively to the Bank's investment climate assessments.

David Mabusela is the Chief Director of National Artisan Development at

Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa. The White

Paper for Post-School Education and Training: Building an Expanded,

Effective and Integrated Post-school System states that “Re-establishing a

good artisan training system is an urgent priority; the current target is for

the country to produce 30 000 artisans a year by 2030”. The process of re-

establishing a good artisan training system began within DHET. The DHET

is currently developing the Artisan Development Strategy, which is based series of consultations

with various stakeholders in the country.

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Dennis George is the General Secretary of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA), the second largest national trade union centre in South Africa and has a membership of 556,000. He was the Chairperson of the National Board for Further Education and Training until 2010, board member of the South African Qualifications Authority from 1998 and served for two terms of office until 2004, member of the Tourism Empowerment Council of South Africa for 3 years, member of the National

Skills Authority since April 2000 and appointed to serve on the Human Resource Development Council of South Africa since 2010. As General Secretary of FEDUSA, he is now actively involved in NEDLAC and the MLC to influence fiscal, monetary, trade, economic development and labour market policy through social dialogue in conjunction with business and government.

Beyani Munthali is the Executive Director of the Employers' Consultative Association of Malawi (ECAM) which has direct membership from 250 organizations, including 6 associations. ECAM is playing an important role in urging employers to incorporate young people into their workforce as a way of promoting skills development and decent work. ECAM joined the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN) as a board member in 2014 and has very recently launched its own National Network: GAN Malawi.

Alain Dehaze is the Chairman of the GAN and the Chief Executive Officer of the Adecco Group. Adecco took action to better equip young people with the much needed skills companies are looking for. Its flagship youth employability program, the ‘Adecco Way to Work’, was run in more than 50 countries in 2016. In its 5th year, the initiative successfully built up on each one of its three pillars: Adecco Street, the Internship Experience and the Adecco “CEO for One Month”. Launched in 2014, the “CEO for One

Month” has proven to be a gateway to future professional successes. Since January 2016, Alain Dehaze is Chair of the GAN and advocates for apprenticeship and work readiness programs. He was Vice President of the World Employment Confederation – Europe and member of the Board of the World Employment Confederation between December 2010 and December 2015.

Colin Coleman is a Partner and is the Managing Director, Head of the South African Office and Investment Banking Division, Sub-Saharan Africa, Goldman Sachs International. He and Stephen Koseff, CEO of Investec Co - Chair the Youth Employment Services Initiative (YES) of the CEO initiative, which is a nationwide plan to employ more than 1 million youth through internships over the next 3 years in South Africa. In 1996, Colin was nominated as one of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders for

Tomorrow. He was also a recipient on behalf of the Consultative Business Movement of Harvard Business School’s “Business Statesman Award” in 1994 and was named one of Euromoney's World Top Ten “Financing leaders for the 21st Century.

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Zeblon Vilakazi is Deputy Vice-Chancellor for research at the University of Witwatersrand. He was previously the Director of iThemba LABS, the largest nuclear physics research lab in the southern hemisphere. Research interests include nuclear and computational physics. Zeblon obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand (1998) and was a National Research Foundation (NRF) post-doctoral Associate at CERN. He currently serves as a Member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Joint

Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. From 2009 to 2011, served as Chairman of the IAEA Standing Advisory Committee on Nuclear Applications. In 2010 he was nominated by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf) and also serves on the ASSAf Council. He was recently awarded the Fellowship of the African Academy of Science(FAAS). Prof Vilakazi’s research interests include the study of relativistic nuclear collisions and computational physics. He has served as MSc and PhD external examiner amongst others, at Wits, UCT and Aarhus University, Denmark. He has more than 160 publications and an H-index of 41.

Karen Moore is a Program Manager, Youth Livelihoods at The MasterCard Foundation, which works with visionary organizations to provide greater access to education, skills training and financial services for people living in poverty, primarily in Africa. As one of the largest private foundations, its work is guided by its mission to advance learning and promote financial inclusion to create an inclusive and equitable world. Based in Toronto, Canada, its independence was established by Mastercard when the

Foundation was created in 2006. Karen has over 15 years’ experience as an adviser and researcher on a range of development policy issues, including childhood, youth and intergenerational poverty and well-being, education, financial inclusion, social protection, gender, and disability. Prior to joining the Foundation, Karen worked with Plan UK as Economic Security Adviser; with the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, based at UNESCO; and with the DFID-funded Chronic Poverty Research Centre, based at the Universities of Birmingham and Manchester in the UK.

Renate Hornung-Draus is Managing Director and Director of European and international affairs of the Confederation of German Employers (BDA), the top business organisation representing the interests of private employers in the fields of employment, labour and social affairs. The BDA presides the German B20 together with the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) and the Federation of German Industries (BDI). Renate directs BDA's activities in the European and international

fields. She is Chair of BUSINESSEUROPE's Social Affairs Committee, Regional Vice President of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) for Europe and Employer-Vice-Chair of the ILO-Governing Body Subcommittee on Multinational enterprises. From 1996 to 2006 she was Vice-Chair of the Employers' group of the European Economic and Social Committee. Furthermore she is member of the Advisory Board of the Birmingham Business School and member of the Board of "Gesellschaft für Europäische Sozialpolitik e. V. (GES)".

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Anna Byhovskaya is a Policy & Communications Advisor at the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), covering innovation and technology policies, the digital economy, skills policies, the OECD Ministerial Council and Forum, as well as the G20 jointly with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). TUAC's role is to help ensure that global markets are balanced by an effective social dimension. Through regular consultations with various OECD committees, the

secretariat, and member governments TUAC coordinates and represents the views of international the labour movement. It is also responsible for coordinating inputs to the annual G20 summits and employment conferences through the Labour 20. Anna previously worked as the policy coordinator of the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) as part of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), at the OECD and as a broadcast journalist in Paris and Berlin.

Maryana Iskander is Chief Executive Officer of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, working with over 300 South African businesses to place over 35,000 young people in their first job. Maryana served as Chief Operating Officer of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York, a US$1billion national operation, and she currently sits on the board of directors. She has been an associate at global business consultancy McKinsey & Co., a strategy consultant for W.L. Gore &

Associates, and a law clerk at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, and Vinson & Elkins in Houston. Maryana also served as Adviser to the President of Rice University and as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Maryana earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Rice University, a M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Ayado Ewinyu is an Industrial Psychologist and Director of the Africa Careers Network, a network connecting outstanding young talent from the African Leadership Academy (ALA) and the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program to career and internship opportunities across Africa. Previously, Ayado worked at KPMG gaining consultancy exposure, fulfilling project coordination roles and delivering people and change solutions. Ayado has assisted various clients in facilitating workforce planning and

transitioning initiatives. She also has experience working in East Africa as a consultant delivering training and supporting tax, audit and advisory projects for various clients. She is passionate about Talent Development, Career and Graduate Development as well as ensuring that the youth are connected to meaningful opportunities.

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Ziaad Suleman is the Chief Operating Offer (COO) of IBM South Africa,

which launched an alternative broad-based black economic-

empowerment (BBBEE) initiative in 2015. The technology giant plans to

inject millions of rands into skills development and education in the fields

of science and technology in South Africa, establish an extensive research

hub in Johannesburg and ensure healthy enterprise development over a

ten-year period. As part of the initiative, IBM offers an enterprise

development programme which empowers aspiring entrepreneurs, and

provides students with bursaries at the University of Witwatersrand, internships, supplementary

short-courses and project work within innovative sectors. As a leader in IBM, Ziaad believes that

finding solutions in Africa requires dynamisms, practicality and full understanding of risks.

Kathryn Porter is the Director of Youth Strategy for Europe, Middle East

and Africa (EMEA) and Division Resourcing Director at Hilton Worldwide.

She shapes apprenticeship in the hospitality industry by chairing the

employer trailblazer group, which includes Compass Group, Dorchester

Collection, Whitbread and Browsword Hotels. With the success of its

National Apprenticeship Academy, Hilton strives to opens door to the

world of hospitality for youth and fosters young hospitality entrepreneurs.

They also provide training and employment to young people from

disadvantaged background through the Youth Career Initiative. In 2014, Hilton made a commitment

of at least 1 million opportunities for youth by 2019 and are on track to meet that goal.

Audrey Cheng is the Founder and CEO of Moringa School, where she is

transforming higher education in Africa, starting with computer science.

Moringa boasts a 95% job placement rate and partnerships with some of

the top employers in Africa (like Safaricom and Barclays), as well as with

Hack Reactor, a top Silicon Valley coding school. Moringa is leading the

way in innovation in tertiary education. With all that she has accomplished

at such a young age, it is no surprise that Audrey was selected as one of

Africa's top women innovators in the World Economic Forum on Africa and was named one of the

2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs.

Andrew Levy is currently the Head of a youth development organization

called Umuzi. Umuzi develops the next generation of creative

professionals. Andrew Started his career in corporate with Investec Private

Bank after which he organised a leadership network for young African

leaders, and helped open a business lounge for British Airways called

SLOW in the City. Along the way he has been heard and seen across the

country presenting sports for 702 Talk Radio as well as being an anchor on

etv’s breakfast show “Sunrise”. He now expresses his views on a radio show called Frankly Speaking. In 2013 Andrew was recognized as part of the 200 top young South Africans by the Mail and

Guardian and has given a number of thought leadership talks on platforms and institutions like TED

and Duke University.

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Babsy Nhlapo is the Skills and Education Coordinator of the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (COSATU). As one of the signatories of the Youth Employment Accord, COSATU sees the need to connect youth with jobs through, among others, support for job placement schemes and work readiness schemes. They also see the need to develop stronger roles for SETAs and promote youth cooperatives and youth entrepreneurship. Specific youth targets can be set in certain industries where young people could be drawn at large. Public sectors and private sectors should work to expand the intake of youth into their workforce.

Nonhlanhla Joye is the Founder of Umgibe Farming Organics and Training Institute. Umgibe Farming Organics is an environmentally-friendly, income generating vegetable-growing system which provides a platform to market vegetables grown by grassroots farmers from the sub-economic townships of South Africa. Umgibe’s main focus is equipping cooperatives and schools with agricultural skills, mainly for Women, that will help create sustainable livelihoods. They currently work with 41 cooperatives all

around KwaZulu-Natal and a few in Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Western Cape.

Mariane Akwenye is the Founder and CEO of Nomad Spa Group, based in Windhoek, Namibia. The Nomad Spa Group consists of a consultancy, a training academy, lifestyle products and day spas all over Namibia. According to Mariane herself, the heart of Nomad Spa is its vocational training. Candidates are sourced through community initiatives and trained to become holistic practitioners at one of the many Nomad day spas. Additionally, the training academy is the first in Africa to provide this

kind of training to the visually impaired.

Fati Nzi-Hassane is the Head of Skills and Employment for Youth Programme at the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency. Fati has joined the NEPAD in January 2016. In 2012, she founded Ose Niger, a Nigerian NGO with the mission to make education and training more accessible to Nigerian students. Before her venture in the social sector, she worked in a number of private sector companies, including LexisNexis, GIE Comutitres and Accenture.

Hein Weyers is the Chief Operating Officer at the Production Management Institute of Southern Africa, a division of ADCORP Holdings, focusing on skills development solutions. He also held the position os Corporate Affairs Associate at ADCORP Holdings (Head Office) for two years and has been with the ADCORP GROUP for 12 years. The Adcorp Group offers workforce management and resourcing solutions, permanent recruitment and selection, professional services, managed services providers (MSP),

vendor management systems (VMS), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), functional outsourcing, HR consulting, analytics, advisory and training. His previous experience includes working in different

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leadership roles at emmanuels, Quest Staffing Solutions and DAV (subsidiaries of ADCORP Holdings) in the capacity of operations management, sales, marketing, key account management and corporate relations.

John Ladd is Administrator of the Office of Apprenticeship at the USDOL Office of Employment and Training Administration and G20 representative. As Administrator, John has responsibility for oversight of the National Registered Apprenticeship System. The National Registered Apprenticeship System operates in cooperation with State agencies, businesses, industry, employers, employer associations, labour and management organizations and educational institutions. It is the nationally

recognized credentialing system for skilled and technical occupational training programs with almost 500,000 active apprentices in the U.S. John has received numerous awards and honours while at ETA including being selected for the inaugural class of ETA’s Excellence in Leadership Program.

Sylvain Kalache is the Co-founder of the Holberton School, a two-year program training highly skilled full-stack software engineers. The Holberton School is unique in that its curriculum is based on a peer-learning and project-based approach where students learn by practicing and collaborating with their peers. Sylvain is an entrepreneur, software engineer and technical advisor who has worked in the Tech industry for more than a decade and is passionate about building quality communities

and products that scale.

Dr. Alexio Musindo is the Director of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Country Office for Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique in Lusaka, Zambia. Previously, Dr. Musindo was the Director for ILO’s Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda Office. Dr. Musindo holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Zimbabwe, and a Masters of Arts in Development Economics from the Center for Development Economics, Williams College.

Delphine Poschmann joined J.P. Morgan in 2015 as Vice-President of Global Philanthropy to manage grant-making and related engagement activities in the EMEA region. The leading global financial services firm recently launched “New Skills For Youth”, a $75 million program to expand high-quality career-focused education programs that lead to well-paying jobs and career progression. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Delphine spent over ten years at PlaNet Finance, now known as Positive Planet, an NGO

that promotes a positive economy through financial inclusion and microentrepreneurship.

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Tanya Cohen is the CEO of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), the principle voice of business, large and small across many sectors of the South African economy, be it at the national or international level. Before joining BUSA, Tanya was the managing director of the Retail Association, and prior to that worked at Woolworths, a South African retailer in the fields of stakeholder relations, transformation, and employee relations. She is no stranger to social dialogue, having been a lead negotiator for

business on employment issues. She is closely involved in the Future of Work Dialogue, in Nedlac and through the IOE. Tanya is an attorney by qualification and holds her BA, LLB, LLM in Law.

Dr. Susan Mboya is President of the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and Group Director of Women's Economic Empowerment at the Coca-Cola Company. Dr. Mboya leads the Group’s development of strategic plans and deployment of the “5 BY 20” initiative, a global commitment to economically empower 5 million women by 2020. Dr. Mboya is also the First Lady of Nairobi County, Kenya, and as such has initiated and championed programs sponsoring children’s education and welfare, women and girls’ empowerment, women health and the environment. She

is also a member of the African Leadership Network, a community of the most dynamic and influential leaders working to contribute towards Africa’s prosperity.

Phuti Manguba is a Design Thinking Consultant in Digital Transformation. She is from the Design Thinkers Group, and is currently the lead for the Johannesburg team. She has a Bcom (IT) degree from the University of Cape Town and a Design Thinking Certificate from the Design Thinkers Academy in Washington DC. She has over 13 years’ experience in IT with specialization in SAP Human Capital Management. Phuti uses the design thinking principles to help organizations redefine their complex business

problems through innovation, teamwork and co-creation derived from human interaction. Her past experiences & lessons learned from engagements with numerous clients enables her to uniquely position herself to help bring a more practical, hands-on-way of thinking and creative mind-set into organizations on their digital transformation journey.

Traci Freeman is the South African Representative of the Rockefeller Foundation, a foundation that expands opportunity and strengthens resilience to social, economic, health and environmental challenges. Traci works to support on the-ground implementation of the Rockefeller Foundations Impact Sourcing and Digital Jobs Africa initiative across the South African within the ICT, Financial Services, Retail, and Hospitality and BPO sectors.

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Keenan Harduth is the Project Manager of Digital Skills Africa at Google. The project aims to train, upskill, educate and empower Africans through digital skills from social media to search engines. Keenan is also an accomplished speaker, trainer and commentator on social media and digital marketing and his skills have been recognized by major organizations like IAB who named him Marketer of the Year 2015 at the IAB Bookmark Awards.

Meet the on-site GAN Team

Laura Fähndrich is the Project Director at the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN). Laura has 17 years of experience in international development organizations and consulting firms, including seven years in the field, primarily in communications and corporate social responsibility (CSR) positions. Laura worked as Corporate Development Manager for the Ecuadorian Consortium on Corporate Social Responsibility (CERES) in Quito, Ecuador, and as Corporate Social Responsibility Specialist for the

Canadian Cooperation Support Unit (USACC) in Lima, Peru. Her collaboration with NGOs, public institutions and international companies in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas has allowed her to understand their differing needs and contexts, as well as how to best communicate them.

Kristin Keveloh is the Head of Strategic Partnership at the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN), a public private partnership promoting apprenticeships and work-based training. She is an experienced project manager of public private partnerships for development, focusing on education, employment, entrepreneurship and gender equality. Prior to joining the GAN, Kristin has worked at the World Economic, the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and start-ups

in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sylvie Blatter is a Communications and Social Media Trainee at the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN). After completing an LLM in Globalisation and Law, specializing in Human Rights of Child Workers, Sylvie went on to work within the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) department at the International Labour Organization (ILO), and then the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees. These experiences has given Sylvie a keen interest in youth labour issues.