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Session 2 · October 13, 2026

Moira McKarracher

Moira has spent three decades on the question of how people actually get from education into work – and what has to be true of a system for that to happen at scale. Her career runs from qualifications design in Scotland, to youth employment policy at the heart of UK government, to reform of labour market programmes in Greece, Romania, Indonesia and Turkey. The through line is employers: she has argued that skills policies and programmes fail when the people doing the hiring are treated as an afterthought.

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Session 1 · Turkey · September 8, 2026
Özlem Demirel Cook
Thirty years between the policy and the practice.

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