Over the past ten years most of Maikel’s work has been working with governments to define their role in employment creation and supporting them in designing policies and programmes that are consistent with this role. In the process he has learned that this role changes with changing circumstances and that it needs to be defined and played together with other sectors of society.
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Over the past ten years most of Maikel’s work has been working with governments to define their role in employment creation and supporting them in designing policies and programmes that are consistent with this role. In the process he has learned that this role changes with changing circumstances and that it needs to be defined and played together with other sectors of society. He has worked on policies and programmes in Kosovo, Liberia, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Jamaica and Yemen and for clients like the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank, the Business Trust in South Africa and several UN Agencies. Maikel was also instrumental in developing the “Innovations in Public Employment Programmes” Course which he helps facilitate annually at the ILO’s International Training Centre in Turin and which is also offered on demand in countries and regions.
Before moving to Brazil in 2008 Maikel worked as a Chief Director in the Expanded Public Works Programme Unit at the South African Department of Public Works. Maikel has also worked as an academic at the WORK Research Centre for Employment Creation in Construction at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and as an Executive Director for the NGO Afribike which promoted bicycle use in Africa through small business development and recycling. He has also worked for several private consulting engineering firms on projects in various countries.
Maikel is originally from Suriname, South America. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and an M.Sc. in Transport and Road Engineering for Development from IHE Delft / Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Maikel currently lives outside the metropolis of São Paulo with his wife Mille and their two sons Felix and Emil.
