Sameer Khatiwada is a Technology and Innovation Specialist in the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Sameer works on managing and providing ADB support in the areas of education, skills development, social protection and training. As an economist in Macroeconomic Division in ADB’s Research Department, he contributed to the flagship Asian Development Outlook. He spent close to 10 years at the International Labor Organization where his key areas of work included labor market diagnostics, labor market institutions and policies, enterprise dynamics and migration. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
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