Senior Management - Standards and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Sector (ED/NORM)
Mr Kari Tapiola
Executive Director
Telephone: (+41.22) 799.6324
E-mail: ednorm@ilo.org
Mr Kari Tapiola (Finland) has been with the ILO since 1996. Before joining the Organization, he was a member of the Governing Body, representing the Nordic Workers, for five years. He attended his first International Labour Conference as a Workers' Delegate of Finland in 1974. In the Conferences 1991-96 he was Workers' Vice-President of the Resolutions Committee. Mr Tapiola worked in Finland as a journalist (1966-72) and as the Political Secretary of the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1972. He was International Secretary of the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) (1972-76); Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (New York) (1976-78); and General Secretary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD (Paris) (1978-85). In 1985 he became Information Director of SAK in Finland, moving on to International Affairs Director in 1988 up to the beginning of his assignment with the ILO. In his professional life, he has above all concentrated on questions of multinational enterprises, globalization and labour standards, technological change and industrial relations, and the social problems of countries in transition.
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International Labour Standards Department (NORMES)
Director: Ms Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry
Telephone: (+41.22) 799.6503
E-mail: normes@ilo.org
Programme on Promoting the Declaration (DECLARATION)
Director ai: Mr Zafar Shaheed
Telephone: (+41.22) 799.7031
E-mail: declaration@ilo.org
International Programme on Child Labour (IPEC)
Director: Ms Michele Jankanish
Telephone: (+41.22) 799.6517
E-mail: ipec@ilo.org
Relations, Meetings and Document Services Department (RELCONF)
Director: Mr José Ricardo Hernandez Pulido
Telephone: (+41.22) 799.8722
E-mail: relconf@ilo.org
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