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COVID-19 and the World of Work

1-2 and 7-9 July 2020
Worker in Zimbabwe producing hand sanitizing gel. © KB Mpofu/ILO

Building a better future of work

The largest ever online gathering of workers, employers and governments will discuss how to address the economic and social impacts of the pandemic. The ILO Global Summit will unfold over five days and consist of five regional events and three global events.

Building a better future of work

The largest ever online gathering of workers, employers and governments will discuss how to address the economic and social impacts of the pandemic. The ILO Global Summit will unfold over five days and consist of five regional events and three global events.

Confirmed Speakers

Global events

Global events

Regional Day, July 7

Mr Guy Ryder
ILO Director-General
Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon
ILO Regional Director for Africa
Ms Tomoko Nishimoto
ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific
Mr Heinz Koller
ILO Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia
Mr Vinicius Pinheiro
ILO Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
Mr Frank Hagemann
Acting ILO Regional Director for Arab States

Global Leaders’ Day, July 8

Mr Guy Ryder
ILO Director-General
Mr António Guterres
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General of the World Health Organization
S.E. Mme Simonetta Sommaruga
President of the Swiss Confederation
H.E. Mr Moon Jae-In
President of the Republic of Korea
H.E. Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa
President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Ms Sangita Reddy
President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce And Industry (FICCI)
Mr Rikio Kozu
President, Japanese Trade Union Confederation (JTUC-RENGO)
H.E. Mr Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama
Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji
H.E. Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
H.E. Mr Tuilaepa Lupe Sailele Malielegaoi
Prime Minister of the Independent State of Samoa
H.E. General Prayut Chan-O-Cha
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand
H.E. Mr K. P. Sharma Oli
Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
H.E. Mr Imran Khan
Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
H.E. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
State Counsellor of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Ms Reema Nanavaty
Leader, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India
Ms Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Mr Roberto Azevêdo
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
H.E. Mr Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh
Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority
H.E. Mr Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa
President of the Republic of South Africa
H.E. Mr Michael D. Higgins
President of Ireland
S.E. Sr. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea
H.E. Mr Nicos Anastasiadis
President of the Republic of Cyprus
S.E. M. Ismaël Omar Guelleh
President of the Republic of Djibouti and Head of Government
Mr Carlo Bonomi
President of the General Confederation of Italian Industry (CONFINDUSTRIA)
Mr Mikhail Shmakov
President, Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR), Russian Federation
S.E. M. Denis Sassou Nguesso
President of the Republic of Congo
H.E. Mr Zoran Milanović
President of the Republic of Croatia
S.E. M. Alpha Condé
President of the Republic of Guinea
S.E. M. Alessandro Mancini Et S.E. Mme Grazia Zafferani
Captains Regent of the Republic of San Marino
M. Jean-Marie Ackah
President, General Confederation of Enterprises of Côte d'Ivoire
H.E. Ms Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
S.E. M. Azali Assoumani
President of the Union of the Comoros
H.E. Mr Mikhail Mishustin
Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
H.E. Mr Stefan Löfven
Prime Minister of Sweden
H.E. Mr Danny Faure
President of the Republic of Seychelles
S.E. M. Xavier Bettel
Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
H.E. Mr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
President of the Republic of Zimbabwe
Mr Mthunzi Mdwaba
IOE Vice-President to the ILO
Mr Reiner Hoffman
President of the German Trade Union Confederation
H.E. Ms Sahle-Work Zewde
President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
S.E. M. António Luís Santos Da Costa
Prime Minister of the Portuguese Republic
S.E. M. Andry Nirina Rajoelina
President of the Republic of Madagascar
H.E. Mr Boyko Borissov
Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria
S.E. M. Macky SALL
President of the Republic of Senegal
S.E. M. Abdelmadjid Tebboune
President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Mr Erol Kiresepi
President of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE)
Ms Rosa Pavanelli
General Secretary, Public Service International (PSI)
Mr Pat McCann
President of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC)
H.E. Mr. Nangolo Mbumba
Vice President of the Republic of Namibia
H.E. Ms Katrin Jakobsdóttir
Prime Minister of Iceland
S.E. M. Saad-Eddine El Othmani
Head of government of the Kingdom of Morocco
H.E. Mr Andrej Babiš
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
H.E. Mr Mostafa Kamal Madbouly Mohamed
Prime Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt
H.E. Mr Giuseppe Conte
Prime Minister of the Republic of Italy
H.E. Mr Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Eswatini
S.E. Sr. Pedro Sánchez-Pérez Castejón
President of the Government of Spain
S.E. M. Elyes Fakhfakh
Head of Government, Tunisian Republic
Mr Roberto Suárez Santos
IOE Secretary-General
M. Salim Labatcha
General Secretary, General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA), Algeria
H.E. Mr Robert Abela
Prime Minister of the Republic of Malta
S.E. M. Hamed Bakayoko
Interim Prime Minister of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Mr Piotr Kaminski
Vicepresident of Employers of Poland
Mr Stephen Cotton, General Secretary
International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)
Mr Laurent Freixe
Executive Vice President and CEO Zone Americas of Nestlé
Mr Angel Gurría
Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
S.E. Sr. Lenín Moreno Garcés
President of the Republic of Ecuador
S.E. Sr. Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
President of the Republic of Cuba
H.E. Mr Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada
S.E. Sr. Iván Duque Márquez
President of the Republic of Colombia
S.E Sr. Laurentino Cortizo Cohen
President of the Republic of Panama
H.E. Ms Mia Amor Mottley
Prime Minister of Barbados
Mr Richard Trumka
President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), United States of America
Sra. María Isabel León
President of the National Confederation of Private Commercial Institutes (CONFIEP)
S.E. Sr. Alejandro Giammattei Falla
President of the Republic of Guatemala
S.E. Sr. Luis Lacalle Pou
President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay
S.E. Sr. Marvin Rodríguez Cordero
Vice-President of the Republic of Costa Rica
Mr Sérgio Nobre
President of Central Union of Workers (CUT), Brazil
Sr. Ricardo Cusanno
President of the Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Production (Fedecámaras)
Ms Mari Pangestu
Managing Director, World Bank

ILO Constituents’ Day, July 9

Zhang Jinan
Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, China
Toni Moore
General Secretary, Barbados Workers' Union (BWU)
Thérèse Coffey
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, United Kingdom
Thein Swe
Minister of Labour, Immigration and Population, Myanmar
Silvestre H. Bello III
Secretary of Labour and Employment, Philippines
Shri Santosh Gangwar
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, India
Luis Arturo Poveda Velasco
Minister of Labour, Republic of Ecuador
Sharan Burrow
General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation
Filomena Tassi
Minister of Labour, Canada
Samba Sy
Minister of Employment, Senegal
Sahil Babayev
Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Renate Hornung-Draus
IOE Regional Vice-President for Europe and Central Asia
Plamen Dimitrov
President, Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB)
Oscar Rolando Castro
Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, El Salvador
Nunzia Catalfo
Minister of Labour and Social Policies, Italy
Nasser Bin Thani Al Hamli
Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation, United Arab Emirates
Elisabeth Borne
Minister of Labour, Employment and Insertion, France
Mthunzi Mdwaba
IOE Vice-President to the ILO
Mohammad Shariatmadari
Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare, Islamic Republic of Iran
Mohamed Hassan Al-Obaidly
Assistant Under-Secretary for Labour Affairs, Qatar
Mohamed Amakraz
Minister of Labour and Professional Insertion, Morocco
Mateja Ribič
State Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the Republic of Slovenia
María José Zaldívar
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Chile
Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Cuba
Madeleine Berre
Minister of Labour, Gabon
Luisa Maria Alcalde
Minister of Labour, Mexico
Lee Jae-Kap
Minister of Employment and Labour, Republic of Korea
Keketso Rantso
Minister of Labour and Employment, Lesotho
Katsunobu Kato
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
Isman Ibrahim Robleh
Minister of Labour, Reform and Administration, Djibouti
Hubertus Heil
Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
Guy Ryder
ILO Director-General
Guido Ricci
Coordinator, Labour Commission, Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial and Financial Associations; Deputy employer member of the Governing Body of the ILO
Geannina Dinarte Romero
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Costa Rica
Gabriella Rigg Herzog
Vice President, Labor Affairs and Corporate Responsibility, USCIB
Eugene Scalia
Secretary of Labor, United States
Eglė Radisauskiene
Vice-Minister of Social Security and Labour, Lithuania
Eduardo Piñate
Minister of Popular Power for the Social Process of Labour, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Doris Zapata Acevedo
Minister of Labour and Labour Development, Panama
Claudio Omar Moroni
Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Argentina
Chris Nwabueze Ngige
Minister of Labour and Employment, Nigeria
Catelene Passchier
Worker Vice-Chairperson of the Governing Body of the ILO
Bruno Bianco Leal
Special Secretary of Labour and Social Provision, Brazil
M. S. Unnikrishnan
Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Industrial Relations and President, Employers’ Federation of India
Begum Monnujan Sufian
State Minister of Labour and Employment, Bangladesh
Ayuba Wabba
President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)
Angel Custodio Cabrera Báez
Minister of Labour, Colombia
 

Regional events

Regional events

Europe, July 1

Alexander Shokhin
Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)
Ana Mendes Godinho
Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Portugal
Anton Kotyakov
Minister of Labour and Social Protection, Russian Federation
Boris Zürcher
Head of the Labour Directorate, SECO, Switzerland
Eva Nordmark
Minister of Employment, Sweden
Hubertus Heil
Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
Irakli Petriashvili
President, Georgian Trade Unions Confederation (GTUC)/PERC
Kris de Meester
Senior Adviser, Federation of Belgian Enterprises (FEB)
Luca Visentini
General Secretary, ETUC/PERC
Marija Hanževački
General Secretary, Independent Trade Union of Croatia (NHS)
Nicolas Schmit
Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, European Commission
Nozim Khusanov
Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Uzbekistan
Renate Hornung-Draus
IOE Regional Vice-President for Europe and Central Asia
Therese Svanström
President, Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees
Yolanda Diaz
Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Spain

Arab States, July 1

Abdul Aziz Al-Kuwari
Director of the Legal Affairs Department Qatar Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Abdullah Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi
Acting Undersecretary for Communication and International Relations, Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, United Arab Emirates
Abdullah Nasser Abuthnain
Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Development for Labour, Saudi Arabia
Adel Al Rucabi
Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Iraq
Adnan Abu-Ragheb
Employers Governing Body member Jordan Chamber of Industry, Jordan
Ali Al Hadid
President of electricity sector trade union and member of the Executive Bureau of the General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions
Ali Belkhader
President, General Federation of Yemen Trade Unions
Ali Sabeeh Alsaadi
President, Iraqi Federation of Industries
Alia Hussein Mahoud
Executive Bureau Member / President of the Women’s Committee, General Federation for Iraqi Trade Unions
Ebtihag Al Kamali
Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, Yemen
Fayez Ali Al Mutairi
Director General, Arab Labour Organisation
Hamad Ben Khamees Al Aamiri
Under Secretary of Labour Affairs, Ministry of Manpower, Oman
Hassan AL Halawaji
Vice President, General Federation of Bahrain Trade unions
Jameel Humaidan
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Bahrain
Khalifa Khamis Mattar
Employers Governing Body member, United Arab Emirates
Lamia Yammine
Minister of Labour, Lebanon
Mansour Al-Shathry
Chairman of the Saudi Labor Market Committee, Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC), Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Hassan Al-Obaidly
Assistant Under-Secretary for Labour Affairs, Qatar
Moubarak Al Azmi
Deputy Director General for Manpower Protection, Kuwait
Mounir Bsat
Board member of ALI and President of Foreign Relations Commission of ALI, Lebanon
Nabhan Al Battachi
President, General Federation of Oman Trade Union (GFOTU)
Nasri Abu Jaish
Minister of Labour, Occupied Palestinian Territories
Nidal Al Bataynah
Minister of Labour, Jordan
Rima Alqadri
Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Syria
Shaher Saad
General Secretary, PGFTU, Occupied Palestinian Territories
Sonya Mohamed Janahi
Board of Directors Member Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Americas, July 2

Alberto Echavarría
Vice President National Employers Association of Colombia, ANDI
Alexandre Furlan
Regional Vice-President for Latin America, IOE
Angel Custodio Cabrera Báez
Minister of Labour, Colombia
Antonio Lisboa
CUT Brasil, Workers representative
Bruno Dalcolmo
Secretary of Labour, Brazil
Carla Bacigalupo
Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security
Chad Blackman
Ambassador, Barbados, GRULAC coordinator
Claudio Omar Moroni
Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Argentina
Colin Jordan
Minister of Labour and Social Partnerships Relations, Barbados
Doris Zapata Avecedo
Minister of Labour and Labour Development, Panama
Gabriella Rigg Herzog
Vice President, Labor Affairs and Corporate Responsibility, USCIB
Geannina Dinarte Romero
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Costa Rica
Gerardo Martínez
Secretary for International Relations, General Confederation of Labour CGT, Argentina
Jonathan Wolfson
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, United States Department of Labour
L. Michael Henry
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Jamaica
Marie Clarke Walker
Canadian Labour Congress
María José Zaldívar
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Chile
Pablo Mieres
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Uruguay
Rafael Freire Neto
Secretary General, TUCA/CSA
Sylvia Cáceres
Minister of Labour and Employment Promotion, Perú
Wayne Chen
President of the Caribbean Employers’ Confederation

Africa, July 2

Amira El Fadil
Commissioner for Social Affairs, African Union Commission
Chawki Achek-Youcef
Minister of Labour, Algeria
El-Mahfoudh Megateli
Secretary General, CGEA, and IOE Vice-President for Africa
Ergogie Tesfaye
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Ethiopia
Francis Atwoli
Secretary General, COTU Kenya
George Okutho
Country Director for Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, ILO
Jacqueline Mugo
Executive Director of the Federation of Kenya Employers
Kwasi Adu-Amankwah
General Secretary, ITUC-Africa
Madeleine Berre
Minister of Labour, Gabon
Maria Fernanda Francisco
Secretary for International Relations, UNTA-CS Angola
Martha Phiri
Director, Human Capital, Youth and Skills, AfDB
Mody Guiro
General Secretary, CNTS Senegal
Mpho Balopi
Minister of Employment, Labour Productivity and Skills Development, Botswana
Mthunzi Mdwaba
IOE Vice-President to the ILO
Samba Sy
Minister of Employment, Senegal
Thulas Nxesi
Minister of Employment and Labour, South Africa
Timothy Olawale
Director of the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association

Asia, July 2

Dinesh Gunawardana
Minister of Skills Development, Employment and Labour Relations, Sri Lanka
Felix Anthony
President of the ITUC Asia-Pacific
Hiroyuki Matsui
IOE Regional Vice-President for Asia and Employers Governing Body Member
Ida Fauziyah
Minister of Manpower, Indonesia
Lautafi Fio Selafi Purcell
Minister of Commerce, Industry and Labour, Samoa
M. Saravanan
Minister of Human Resources, Malaysia
Michele O’Neil
President ACTU, Australia
Rajeev Dubey
Principal Advisor of Mahinda Mahindra Ltd and Employers Governing Body Member
Scott Barklamb
Director of Workplace Relations at Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Shoya Yoshida
ITUC Asia Pacific Secretary General
Shri Santosh Gangwar
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, India
Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee
Associate Professor of Social Policy, Chung Ang University