Speaker Biography

Christian Jacquier, ILO, Switzerland

Economist, PhD

Coordinator of the global programme ILO/STEP (Strategies and Techniques against social Exclusion and Poverty) based in Geneva with the ILO Social security Department and the Social Protection Sector.STEP is one of the leading organizations in the field of "micro-insurance and extension of social protection".

Secretary of the new "Global Alliance for the extension of social protection", a network that includes the International Labour Office (ILO), and the six most important international federations and organizations representing the cooperative, mutual and social insurance sectors.