Monika Queisser

Senior Counsellor to the Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate and the Head of Social Policy Division at Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Monika Queisser is Senior Counsellor to the Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate and the Head of Social Policy Division at the OECD. She supervises and coordinates the work on social protection, social indicators, pensions, affordable housing and family policies.Furthermore, she manages the OECD Gender Initiative which examines gender inequalities in education, employment and entrepreneurship. As a champion of gender-related issues she frequently intervenes in expert groups, forums and panels worldwide. She has been working at the OECD since 1997. In 2007-8, she worked as adviser to the OECD Secretary-General.Ms. Queisser worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the pensions and insurance group in the Financial Sector Development Department. Her first employment was with the German Ifo Institute for economic research in Munich. Her professional experience also includes employment as a journalist at daily newspapers and broadcasting in Germany.