Social Policy Challenges in OECD countries

On-site masterclass organised in the framework of the Social Policy and Social Innovation policy stream of the School of Public Affairs. Open to Sciences Po students, teachers and staff. Please register with your Sciences Po's email address. You will need your Sciences Po card to enter the building.

About the conference

How to address life-course and intersectional inequalities?

The first part of the presentation will discuss how the OECD’s social policy division considers social inequalities (socioeconomic differences, gender, race, age) in its work and policy recommendations. It will also discuss the challenges in transforming findings into concrete policy actions.

Demographics and gender equality: trends in family policy

The second part of the presentation will discuss how family policies are being adapted in line with societal transformations in OECD countries, which key trends can be identified, and what objectives different OECD countries are pursuing in family policy. It will also examine how specific groups are being targeted, in particular single parent families which are at higher risk of poverty, as well as new forms of families.

About the speaker

Monika Queisser is Senior Counsellor to the Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate and the Head of Social Policy Division at the OECD, where she supervises and coordinates the work on social protection, social indicators, pensions, affordable housing, family and LGBTI+ policies. She has been working at the OECD since 1997. In 2007-8, she worked as an adviser to the OECD Secretary-General.

 Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Queisser worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the pensions and insurance group in the Financial Sector Development Department. Her first employment was with the German Ifo Institute for economic research in Munich. Her professional experience also includes employment as a journalist at daily newspapers and broadcasting in Germany.

Moderation by Bruno Palier, Scientific Advisor of the Social Policy and Social Innovation stream, and students of the stream. 

Photo credit: OECD