Mr. Peter Van Rooij is the Deputy Regional Director for Africa, of the International Labour Organization (ILO) since June, 2018.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Peter Van Rooij was the Director of ILO Decent Work Team for North Africa and ILO Country Office for Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan based in Cairo from 15 January 2015.

Prior to that Mr. Peter Van Rooij worked as Country Director of the ILO Jakarta Office responsible for Indonesia and Timor-Leste in Jakarta since 2010.

Since joining ILO in 1995, Mr. Peter Van Rooij has served at headquarters in Geneva in different capacities, including on donor coordination, in development projects and activities related to employment and microfinance, managing a project on knowledge management and worked as Advisor to the Bureau for Employers’ Activities in Geneva, in addition to a staff exchange with the Michelin company before going to the field in 2007 as the Deputy Director for ILO, Jakarta..

Before joining the ILO, he worked as Field Implementation Officer at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in Khartoum, Sudan. Peter Van Rooij holds a Masters’ Degree in Economics from the Wageningen Agriculture University, Netherlands.