Steven Miller

International Labor Office (ILO)


Steven Miller began his career with the International Labor Office in 1982, working three years as Chief Technical Advisor for a labor-intensive infrastructure development program in Burkina Faso. He subsequently joined ILO headquarters in Geneva responsible for evaluation, research and training for ILO's employment-intensive investment programs in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. His work then focused on urban employment and informal sector policies and programs in both developing and industrialized countries, and co-authored the ILO study on the Future of Urban Employment, presented as ILO's contribution to the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul in 1996. In 1999, he was detached to the United Nations Secretariat in New York as part of a team preparing the Special Session of the General Assembly's five-year review of the Social Summit, with a particular focus on employment issues. Since 2000, he has worked as Secretary to the Secretary-General's Youth Employment Network, a joint initiative of the UN Secretariat, the World Bank and the ILO whose mandate lies in the Millenium Summit. He is also Deputy Director of the ILO Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York. He has extensive hands-on experience with formulation, implementation and evaluation of technical cooperation programs in developing countries. He holds a B.A. from Yale and a M.A. in Political Science from Boston University.