Cedefop

 Ben Kriechel has worked on topics of personnel and labour economics, vocational education and training systems, worker displacement and labour mobility, labour market monitoring, survey methods, and skills forecasting. He advised and participated in several countries on the development and implementation of labour market information systems and forecasts. He has worked for organisations such as EU Commission, Cedefop, ETF, ILO, OECD, UNESCO and national ministries. Ben Kriechel has co-authored, together with Rob Wilson, the Cedefop / ILO / ETF Guide on Forecasting. He published scientific articles in several peer reviewed journals on topics of labour markets, skills, qualifications and occupations. He is a research fellow at the IZA in Bonn, the Research Centre of Education and the Labour Market (ROA) in Maastricht. 

 Ilias is involved in several other Cedefop projects (including Mismatch priority occupations and Skills governance). Ilias is an economist by training, with a PhD in employment research from the University of Warwick, where he worked for a number of years prior to joining Cedefop. His expertise is in labour economics, education economics, and industrial relations. Ilias has published articles in various top-ranking journals including: Industrial Relations: a Journal of Economy and Society, Regional Studies, Industrial and Economic Democracy, Journal of Economic Studies, Education Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Higher Education, the International Journal of Manpower, Personnel Review, and the Journal of Labour Research.