Meet our trainers and speakers!
Alexis Hoyaux is a senior specialist on skills development (SD), working at E2 DG-INTPA. Viewing SD in a broad sense related to education and employment, he combines technical skills on TVET, with the appropriate aid modality. Having worked for bilateral and multilateral organisations, with several long-term postings overseas (Africa, Oceania, Latin America, Caribbean), he focusses mainly on the macro and micro elements of SD, with a keen interest on policies/strategies SD, legislation, organisation and financing of SD, management of VT Centres, next to evaluation and project management. Fervent defender of sector wide approaches and sector budget support, he puts ownership and sustainability by the local counterpart of each intervention as the key challenge to assure. He has worked in similar positions at LuxDev, ITCILO, ILO-Cinterfor, ENABEL, DG Europe-Aid (EC) and NZaid for a total of around 30 years, next to short missions for BMZ-Germany, Sida-Sweden, ETF and private consultancies. He has a law degree.
Alice Vozza is skills and Lifelong Learning Specialist in DWT/CO Pretoria. Over the last 15 years, Alice has been working for the ILO’s International Training Centre and different ILO Country Offices, in the field of green jobs, green entrepreneurship, skills development, enterprise development and the role of private sector and business associations. Before joining the DWT/CO Pretoria, she was based in Zimbabwe (2018-2020), in charge of the management and technical supervision of the ILO/Sida-funded Green enterPRIZE Innovation & Development Project. Through a supply and demand approach to green jobs creation, the on-going intervention supports SMEs to seize sustainable growth opportunities, and TVET institutions to deliver training programmes that provide skills for a green economy. Previously, Alice worked for the ILO’s International Training Centre (2012-2018) building the Green Jobs Learning Cluster (a training arm of the ILO’s Green Jobs Programme) and delivering courses and capacity development projects across all regions. Between 2010 and 2012, she was based in Kenya coordinating an EU-funded project on private sector development and the role of employers’ organisations in East Africa and Ghana. Between 2006 and 2010, she contributed to the design and implementation of ITCILO capacity building activities and projects on sustainable local development and disaster risk reduction with a focus on Central America and the Caribbean.
Alice lived and studied in France, Spain and the UK where she also had working experiences with private enterprises and consultancy firms. She holds a master’s degree in Management of Development (ITCILO), a master’s in Business Management (ESCP, Paris) and a degree in Political Science (University of Turin, Italy).
Carmo Gomes is currently a Senior Human Capital Development Expert, after being Head of the County Intelligence Unit at the Operations Department, between 2018-2020, and an Education and Training Specialist focusing thematically on Qualifications and qualification systems development. She joined the European Training Foundation in 2016. Before, she has been Chief Technical Adviser at the International Labour Organisation (2012-2016) as a Skills and Employment Specialist, where she has been assigned to Albania She has been Vice-President of the National Agency for Qualifications in Portugal (2008-2011). She holds a PhD in Sociology by the University Institute of Lisbon, and a Master of Social Sciences by the University of Lisbon – Institute of Social Sciences; and is an associated researcher of the CIES-ISCTE – Centre of Research and Studies in Sociology, where she has been involved in several research projects on topics related to education, employment, youth, scientific culture, key-competences and life competences. Carmo is now leading the implementation of the monitoring framework for the Osnabruck Declaration and the EU Council Recommendation on VET in the candidate countries.
Naomy Kanyemba Lintini is a development practitioner with a passion for promoting sustainable and pro-poor development solutions. She has over 20 years’ experience in implementing programmes around skills, entrepreneurship, private sector development, and in providing policy advisory support to continental and regional communities, national governments, and international organizations.
She is trainer, business coach and mentor, and actively promotes demand responsive skills development, pro-poor and inclusive economic development. She has previously worked in private sector; and with the Zambia Small Enterprise Development Board, and the German Development Cooperation (formerly GTZ) on skills development, SME and private development, and on promoting trade competitiveness for SMEs. Naomy has offered consultancy services to various organizations including, UNCTAD, Banyani Global, COMESA, AfBD and the former Zambia Private Sector Reform Programme among others.
Since 2009, Naomy has been working with the International Labour Organization (ILO), as Chief Technical Advisor and has operated in Zambia, Malawi Zimbabwe, and South Africa, managing a range of projects on skills anticipation, skills development and TEVET reforms; trade and economic diversification; value chain and sustainable enterprise development; and youth and women economic empowerment. She is currently based in Pretoria, where she works cosey with the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and with the GIZ as she manages an ILO supported Project on capacity building of African Union Members States for Labour Market Information and Skills Anticipation, under the Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA) Programme. Naomy holds a Master of Business Administration Degree.
Olga Strietska-Ilina is an Area Lead for Skills Strategies for Future Labour Markets at the ILO, Geneva. Her work focuses on anticipating skills needs for the Future of Work, skills for trade and economic diversification, skills for environmental sustainability and climate action, and skills for technological change and digitalisation.
Before 2008, Olga worked at the European Centre for Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop). Earlier on, she was a Head of the Czech National Observatory of Employment and Training and taught International Relations at the Central European University (CEU).
Olga holds post-graduate degrees in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Manchester, Society and Politics from the CEU, and History and Ethnography from the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov.
She published extensively and is the main author and/or editor of several books, including “Skills and Jobs Mismatches in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” (ILO, 2019), “Skills for a Greener Future” (ILO, 2019), “Skills Needs Anticipation Systems and Approaches” (ILO, OECD et al, 2017), “Parallel Cultures” (Routledge, 2017 2nd edition) and “A Clash of Transitions: Towards a Learning Society” (Peter Lang Publishing 2007).
Pasqualino Mare has been employed by the European Training Foundation (ETF) since 2010 as Senior Human capital expert (HCD), Country liaison for Egypt and INTPA-ETF contact point for activities for Sub Saharan Africa. At the ETF Pasqualino has been working in various thematic areas like Qualifications, Governance in VET, Entrepreneurship, worked based learning in mainly the north African and middle East region. In Egypt Pasqualino has mainly been supporting the European Delegation in monitoring and formulation of VET projects. From 2019 until 2021 Pasqualino has worked as VET policy advisor at the European Commission, DG international partnership as VET covering the mainly the Sub Saharan African region. Before joining the ETF Pasqualino was active within the European Union and has worked for 15 years in a sector skill council in the Netherlands managing international activities.
Stefan Thomas is a Senior Human Capital Development Specialist at the European Training Foundation (ETF) in Turin, Italy. The ETF’s mission is to help transition and developing countries to harness the potential of their human capital through the reform of education, training and labour market systems in the context of the EU's external relations policy. Mr Thomas’ responsibilities at the ETF include working with governments, social partners, international organisations and development agencies to improve work-based learning systems. He also works on Centres of Vocational Excellence and is part of ETF’s Africa team.