Kari is a Principal Research Fellow at IES with 25 years of international comparative research and evaluation in the fields of employment and labour markets, including youth labour markets and school-to-work transitions; education and training systems; and human capital development. She was recently an expert witness to the House of Lords’ EU Committee’s inquiry on EU action on youth unemployment and is the policy manager for the European Commission’s project ‘Advice on Apprenticeship and Traineeship Schemes’. In 2010-2012, Kari was the project manager for the European Commission’s first EU-wide study on traineeships and a national expert for the apprenticeship supply study.
