MLC
Milagros Lazo Castro
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Youth Employment and Participation Officer
Description
Milagros Lazo Castro is Youth Employment and Participation Officer with the Youth Employment
Accelerator Group of the ILO. She is responsible for the activities of the Youth Group in the area
of meaningful youth engagement, with a focus on refugee and host community contexts.
Milagros first joined the ILO in 2012 and has since worked in different capacities, first as
Technical Officer in the Youth Employment Programme where she supported the
implementation, coordination and monitoring of numerous youth employment projects
programmes, and more recently as Technical Officer in the Skills and Employability Branch of
the ILO where she led the work on innovation and knowledge management. She also worked in
the OECD for a couple of years as Policy Analyst for the EU-OECD Youth Inclusion project.
Milagros has a solid experience in innovation, learning, and knowledge management and
dissemination, with a specific focus on youth employment, skills development and social
inclusion. Furthermore, she has contributed to numerous publications on youth inclusion and
well-being.
Milagros holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the Sorbonne University and a Master's
degree in International Relations from Nouvelle Sorbonne University.
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