The development of this edition of the OECD Skills Outlook report was guided by the Skills Strategy Advisory Group, a group including representatives of several OECD committees and working parties and benefited from feedback and comments from national government delegates. The OECD Skills Outlook series is the product of a close collaborative effort among several directorates in the OECD Secretariat. This volume was prepared by Francesca Borgonovi and Fabio Manca from the OECD Centre for Skills and benefited from contributions from Kentaro Asai, Elena Crivellaro, Federica Meluzzi, Andreea Minea‑Pic, Aleksandra Paciorek, Artur Pokropek, Helke Seitz and Jarno Vrolijk. Stefano Scarpetta (Director for the Directorate of Employment Labour and Social Affairs), Andreas Schleicher (Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills), Mark Pearson (Deputy Director for the Directorate of Employment Labour and Social Affairs), El Iza Mohamedou (Head of the OECD Centre for Skills), Andrew Bell and Montserrat Gomendio provided strategic oversight.
Francesco Avvisati, Luca Marcolin, Mariagrazia Squicciarini, Glenda Quintini and Marieke Vanderweyer provided valuable comments at various stages in the preparation of this report.
The report was edited by Romy de Courtay. Kentaro Asai, Francesca Borgonovi, Jennifer Cannon and Helke Seitz co‑ordinated production. Communication and administrative support was provided by Jennifer Cannon, Liv Gudmundson, Lucy Hulett, Charity Kome, Véronique Quénehen, Rasa Silyte-Niavas and Alastair Wood.
This document was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.