This report has been prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. This work was conducted as part of the OECD’s Local Employment and Economic Development (LEED) Programme with financial support from the Australian Government National Skills Commission (NSC).
This report was drafted by Alessandro Kandiah, Policy Analyst, Local Employment, Skills and Social Innovation (LESI) Division (OECD/CFE), under the supervision of Jonathan Barr, Head of the Employment and Skills Unit within CFE/LESI. Karen Maguire, Head of the LESI Division, provided overall guidance. Tahsin Mehdi, from the CFE/LESI Division, as well as Michela Meghnagi and Ida Peltonen, formerly in the CFE/LESI Division, contributed to this report through analysis and data collection.
Officials from the Australian Government National Skills Commission played an instrumental role in helping the OECD to co-ordinate this project, while also providing constructive feedback on the development of the report. In particular, the OECD would like to thank Kate Morrison, Director, Skills Policy and Intelligence, Natasha Yemm, Director, Data Science, Erica Sparke, Assistant Director, Giang Nguyen, Senior Data Analyst - Assistant Director, Mohammad Ali Raza, Senior Data Scientist, and Hao Min, Research Analyst.
Feedback and inputs from representatives from Sydney-South West (New South Wales) and Warrnambool and South West (Victoria) were gathered during online roundtables in July 2020. The OECD would like to thank Kyla Cassells, NSW/ACT State Office, and Kym Ivey, Director, Bendigo Regional Office, both form the Delivery and Employer Engagement Division of the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment. Lastly, the OECD would like to thank all those individuals form Sydney-South West and Warrnambool and South West who participated in roundtables on the local impacts of the future of work in July 2020. These roundtables brought together over 100 local stakeholders across the two cities.