Azita Berar Award has been the Director of the Employment Policy Department of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in the period 2006 – 2017, working for the institution since 1983. In this position, she was responsible for the development of ILO’s approach to promoting full, productive, decent and freely chosen employment. She has a long and deep experience providing policy advice, leading policy-oriented research, publications and dissemination, on a broad range of employment, labor market and social policy issues, on a global scale in diverse environments.