Senior expert, Labour Market Policies and Vulnerable Groups
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Franz Gundacker is seconded to ILO SRO-Budapest by the Austrian Government and joined ILO in January 2004. He covers a broad area of labour market issues with particular reference to vocational education, training and retraining, employment services, active labour market policies and the needs of vulnerable groups.
After graduating from Innsbruck and Glasgow Universities, Franz Gundacker gained a broad employment and labour market policy experience in Austria at several senior levels (Deputy Director of the Arbeitsmarktverwaltung Niederösterreich from 1987-1992, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich from 1994-1997).
He also worked as a consultant with the OECD from 1992-1994 on labour market policies in Central and Eatsern Europe. From 1997-1999 (inluding the first Austrian chairmanship in the Council) he headed the Labour Market, Health and Social Policy Division at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels.
From 1999 until end of 2003 he served as Deputy Director of EU and International Affairs at the Austrian Federal Ministry (now) of Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection issues. In this capacity he also acted as Head of Protocol. Under his supervision, the Ministry organised numerous training seminars for civil servants coming from new EU member states and beyond.
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