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Dr. Patrick Werquin CV

Patrick Werquin, PhD, is currently Principal Administrator at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the Education and Training Policy Division of the Directorate for Education, in Paris. He has a PhD. in Economics. He taught Economics and Econometrics at the Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles; 1986-98) and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, 1986-1998).
From 1992 to February 1999, Patrick Werquin was a researcher at the French Centre for Research on Education, Training and Employment (Centre d’études et de recherches sur les qualifications or Céreq) of the French Ministries of Labour and Education. He has published papers and edited books on issues such as the transition from school to working life, including public intervention in the youth labour market, poverty, wage and unemployment. He was chairman of the European Research Network on Transition in Youth (TIY) from 1998 to 2001 and he is a member of the editorial board of the Journal Économie et Prévision, Paris.
At the OECD, Patrick Werquin is working on the role of national qualification systems in promoting lifelong learning, the thematic review of adult learning (with a specific focus on low skilled individuals), literacy and adult literacy, new competencies and assessment of adult skills, school to work transition issues as well as recognition of non formal and informal learning and credit transfer. He is the OECD representative for the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills survey (ALL). He has contributed to following OECD publications: the third IALS report (Literacy in the information age, 2000), the 2001 Education Policy Analysis (prepared for the meeting of the Education Committee at the Ministerial level), the two reports of the Thematic Review of Adult Learning (Beyond Rhetoric: Adult Learning Policies and Practices, 2003; Promoting Adult learning, 2005), the first ALL report (Learning a living, 2005) and the international synthesis report on the Role of national qualifications systems in promoting lifelong learning (2005).