Christian Viegelahn is a Senior Economist at the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Bangkok. He joined the ILO in 2011 and spent several years at ILO’s Research Department in Geneva, before moving to ILO’s Bangkok Office in 2018. His research focuses on labor economics, the future of work, international trade, global value chains, and macroeconomics. He is also member of the ILO-wide task team on COVID-19 and has been undertaking extensive research on the labor market impact of the current crisis. He regularly leads the production of ILO reports and published his research in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of International Economics or the International Labour Review. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Before joining the ILO in 2011, he worked for the OECD.