Monika Queisser
Head of Social Policy Division, OECD
Monika Queisser is Senior Counsellor to the Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate and the Head of Social Policy Division at the OECD, where she supervises and coordinates the work on social protection, social indicators, pensions, affordable housing, family and LGBTI+ policies. She has been working at the OECD since 1997. In 2007-8, she worked as an adviser to the OECD Secretary-General.
Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Queisser worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the pensions and insurance group in the Financial Sector Development Department. Her first employment was with the German Ifo Institute for economic research in Munich. Her professional experience also includes employment as a journalist at daily newspapers and broadcasting in Germany.
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Event
14 January 2026
Demography at a turning point: growth, talent and the future of societies
How demographic shifts reshape growth, labour markets and public policy
Conference
06 September 2023
Bruegel Annual Meetings, 6-7 September 2023
A symphony in progress: shaping a new agenda for Europe
Event
07 June 2022
Future of Work and Inclusive Growth Annual Conference 2022
First Annual Conference of the Future of Work and Inclusive Growth project
Event
09 July 2019
AI, robots and platform workers: What future for European welfare states?
At this event, we launch the study, "Digitalisation and European welfare states", authored by Georgios Petropoulos, J. Scott Marcus, Nicolas Moës, and