Youth Dialogue 2018: Youth at Work
IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: October 9, 2018
DAY: Tuesday
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
LOCATION: Bali International Convention Center (BICC), WE-1-Auditorium
Overview
This session will focus on key dimensions of youth employment, including trends in labor markets, gender roles, and informality, as well as their economic and social implications. Panelists will discuss the role of well-functioning labor and product markets, trade, and technology in providing potential opportunities for youth.Join the conversation via #IMFYouth
Youth Dialogue 2018: Youth at Work
Panelists
Moderator: Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Opening Remarks: Carla Grasso
In her role at the Fund, Ms. Grasso oversees all the Fund’s administrative functions, coordinates the budget, human resources, technology, general services, and internal audit, to ensure the efficient, effective, and comprehensive management of these functions, which are vital to the Fund’s overall effectiveness. She also oversees the IMF’s capacity-building and training work.
Ms. Grasso worked for fourteen years, at Vale S.A., one of the world’s largest mining companies, serving as Vice President for Human Resources and Corporate Services from 2001 to 2011. During that time, she led efforts to modernize the company—with operations in 38 countries and involving 138,000 people—in the areas of human resources, IT, procurement, communications, and health and safety.
Before joining Vale S.A., Ms. Grasso served as Secretary of the Brazilian Supplementary Social Security Office from 1994 to 1997, and also held several positions as Advisor and Coordinator in the Ministries of Social Security, Finance, and Planning, as well as in the Office of the President of Brazil. She participated, inter alia, in the creation and proposal for social security system reform and assessment of the funding needs of the public sector in Brazil, with a focus on fiscal and tax areas.
Ms. Grasso holds a Masters degree in Economic Policy from Universidade de Brasília and was Professor of International Economics and Monetary Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Brasília, and of Economy Mathematics at the Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal. In 2014 she was Professor of Business Education at Insper (Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa) in Sao Paulo.
Panelist: Graeme Buckley
Mr Graeme Buckley has held the post of Director of the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific and ILO Country Office for Thailand, Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (DWT/CO-Bangkok) since 1 November 2017.
Mr Buckley holds a PhD in development economics, a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a first degree in economics. He has authored a number of books and journal articles on topics related to enterprise development, poverty reduction, microfinance, social dialogue and development economics.
Panelist: Aya Chebbi
Panelist: Anele Mkuzo
Anele Mkuzo has worked in the Enterprise Development space for over 5 years. Her experience began at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) where she designed programmes for more than 400 entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs were from various sectors; among those she received an award for designing the National Home Builders Regulatory Council Women Empowerment Programme at the 2015 South African Construction Awards; which recognize excellence across Africa.
In 2016, Anele was nominated as one of Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans in the Education category. And completed her Post Diploma in Business Administration at GIBS.
In 2017, Anele won the Fairlady Women of the Future – Rising Star award. And has been facilitating Design Thinking on enterprise development programmes for youth start-ups and scale-up businesses.
Anele is currently the MTN Solution Space scholar studying towards her Master of Philosophy in Inclusive Innovation at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business for 2018.