Nicholas Grisewood
Mr Nicholas Grisewood joined the Labour Migration Branch in May 2015 as a technical specialist in the field of crisis migration. He has been involved with the ILO and its work since 1983 when he began his professional career in the international labour movement. From 1983 to 1998, he worked for Public Services International (PSI), Education International (EI) and Union Network International (UNI) with particular responsibilities in the areas of communications, labour standards, youth and child labour. Following a period as a consultant in the areas of labour standards and child labour, during which he developed “SCREAM”, the most durable and successful education programme for ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), he joined the IPEC team in Geneva as a specialist on education and social dialogue.
He also held the post of Executive Director of the Global March Against Child Labour, working closely with 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi. From 2011 to 2013, he was the Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO’s child labour elimination project in Jordan, “Moving Towards a Child Labour Free Jordan” at the time of the eruption of the Syrian crisis. As a result, he became involved in the emergency response and focused on the links between economic insecurity among the Syrian refugee population, the challenge of labour market integration and the right to work for refugees.
He has written widely on labour standards, child labour and related protection issues for a variety of organisations, including trade unions, ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR and Save the Children. Most recently, he has produced assessments on protection issues relating to Syrian refugee populations in Jordan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Work areas: Human and labour rights of migrants, specifically irregular migration relating to crisis.
Working languages: English and French
He also held the post of Executive Director of the Global March Against Child Labour, working closely with 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi. From 2011 to 2013, he was the Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO’s child labour elimination project in Jordan, “Moving Towards a Child Labour Free Jordan” at the time of the eruption of the Syrian crisis. As a result, he became involved in the emergency response and focused on the links between economic insecurity among the Syrian refugee population, the challenge of labour market integration and the right to work for refugees.
He has written widely on labour standards, child labour and related protection issues for a variety of organisations, including trade unions, ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR and Save the Children. Most recently, he has produced assessments on protection issues relating to Syrian refugee populations in Jordan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Work areas: Human and labour rights of migrants, specifically irregular migration relating to crisis.
Working languages: English and French