Céline Peyron Bista is the Chief Technical Advisor of an EU-funded Programme on improving linkages between social protection and public finance management for the International Labour Organization (ILO). She has nearly 25 years of professional experience in the field of social security and social protection, mainly with the ILO which she first joined in 2001, but also the Asian Development Bank and NGOs.
Céline is a graduate in Economic Development and holds a master’s degree on Social Policy for Developing Countries from the University Paris I – Sorbonne. Among other topics, she has a specialization on the extension of social protection to all forms of employment and unemployment protection. She has worked and lived in Latin America, Asia and Africa.