Christine Bruniaux is currently head of the Regional Observatory of Employment and Training (OREF) of Ile-de-France, France. The Observatory, which is funded by the State and the Region, must help all the policy makers, including industrial partners and local authorities, at a regional and local level, to design initial and further vocational training programmes according to future skill needs. She is an economist and has always worked for policy makers, at a national or regional level, as an expert in different issues: employment, labour market, training and social policies. She has successively worked at the French Ministry of Economy and Finances, at which she was responsible for unemployment forecast, then at the French Ministry of Employment, at which she helped to design and evaluate labour market policies, then at the London School of Economics (Centre for Economic Performance) where she worked  for the British government and the European Commission on international comparisons of educational policies and their outcomes on the labour market. Just before setting up the Regional Observatory, in 2005, she worked again in Paris, for the Council of Employment, Income and Social Cohesion, whose chairman is Jacques Delors.