Valeria Esquivel

Valeria Esquivel is Employment Policies and Gender Specialist at the International Labor Office, based in Geneva, where she coordinates the Gender in Employment Group in the EMPLAB Branch of the Employment Policy Department. Before joining the UN in 2014, Esquivel developed a long academic career as feminist economist, publishing extensively on labor, macroeconomic and social policies. She has co-edited three Gender & Development issues, the first devoted to the Sustainable Development Goals (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2016), the second to Beijing +25 (Vol.28, No. 2, 2020) and the coming one on A Gender-Responsive Recovery (Vol.30, No.1-2, 2022). Her publications on care policies and care workers include the co-authored reports Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2017) and Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work (ILO, 2018). Her latest research focuses on the intersections of gender, employment and macroeconomics, studying the gender employment impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim at proposing and supporting the implementation of gender-responsive employment policies.

Esquivel is a member of the Gender and Macroeconomics Group of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the editor of the collective volume "La Economía Feminista desde América Latina: Una hoja de ruta sobre los debates actuales en la región". She is currently a member of the Board of IAFFE, chairing the Membership Committee; is Associate Editor for Feminist Economics and is member of the Editorial Advisory Group of Gender & Development. She graduated with honors from Universidad de Buenos Aires and earned an MSc and a PhD in economics from the University of London.