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John Evans is General Secretary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee- to the OECD a post he has held since 1985 and Chief Economist of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) since 2012.
Since its creation, he has been heading the Labour20 (L20) as part of the G20 process jointly with the ITUC.
After studying, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford and teaching Introductory Economics, he worked as an economist in the Economic Department at the Trade Union Congress in London. Subsequent posts included positions with the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees (now the UNI Global Union) in Geneva and Research Officer with the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels where he published extensively on Labour Markets and the Impact of Technological Change on Employment.
Past not-for-profit board positions include the Global Reporting Initiative and the Helsinki Group. He is currently a member of the Comité Médicis at the Amundi Group, the Conseil d'Orientation, IDDRI (the French Institute for Research on Sustainable Development) and the Council of Ruskin College, Oxford. He is a member of several World Economic Forum Global AgendaCouncils on Employment and Inclusion.
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