Mr Peter van Rooij, currently is the Director of the International Labour Office’s MultilateralPartnerships and Development Cooperation Department at headquarters in Geneva since 1 August 2023.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr Peter van Rooij was the Deputy Regional Director for the ILO for Africa from 2018 until July 2023. Prior to this, he was the Director of ILO’s Decent Work Team for North Africa and ILO Country Office for Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan based in Cairo from 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 donor coordination, 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, the Netherlands.