Mr. Max Tuñón is the Labour Migration Specialist for South Asia, based in the Decent Work Technical Support Team (DWT) in New Delhi. He provides technical advisory services to seven countries in the sub-region: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

He was previously the Senior Programme Officer / Coordinator of the GMS TRIANGLE project - Tripartite Action to Protect Migrant Workers within and from the Greater Mekong Subregion from Labour Exploitation. The project worked on strengthening the formulation and implementation of improved recruitment and labour protection policies and practices in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam - and supports initiatives at the ASEAN level.

Prior to working in the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Max was based in Beijing, working on internal migration in China, specifically on an ILO project to prevent labour trafficking, and then a UN Joint Programme on Youth Employment and Migration. Before that, he worked on youth employment issues in Vietnam.

Max has a degree in business from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and an MA in Social Development from the University of Sussex.