Patrick Werquin is currently Professor at CNAM (Conservatoire national des arts et métiers – French Tertiary Education and Research Institution), Paris; and international consultant based in Saint-Sulpice-sur-Lèze, France. He has been working, among others, for the AFD, the BID, the CEDEFOP, dvv international, the European Commission, GHK, GIZ, I&D, LuxDev, the OCEMO, the UNESCO and several governments in different countries.
He was Senior Economist with the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Directorate for Education; and CERI (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation) from 1999 to 2010. He was a researcher at the French Centre for Research on Education, Training and Employment (Céreq, 1992-99).
Patrick Werquin has been working and publishing on education and training policies, lifelong learning, technical and vocational education and training, national qualifications systems and frameworks, adult learning, low skilled individuals/workers, adult literacy, new competences and assessment of adult skills, school-to-work transition, validation and recognition of non-formal and informal learning outcomes, credit transfer, statistical indicators and econometric analysis on education and the labour market; in all OECD countries as well as in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Arab World, Europe and South East Asia.
