UKCES

Email: katerina.rudiger@ukces.org.uk
Tel: 0207 8818920

Biography

Katerina joined the UK Commission for Employment and Skills in September 2008. Previously, she worked as a researcher on the Work Foundation's Knowledge Economy Programme, leading the globalisation strand of the programme as well as the research on intangible assets and value creation in the knowledge economy. Before joining the Work Foundation she worked at the European Policy Centre and the DG Trade of the European Commission in Brussels, as well as at an international think tank, Policy Network, in London. She holds an MA in European Studies from King's College, London and a Licence (BA equivalent) in Langues étrangères appliquées aux affaires et au commerce international from the Université de Nantes, France.

Areas of Expertise and Interest

• Knowledge economy and knowledge work
• Globalisation, global supply and demand of highly skilled labour, high skilled migration, offshore outsourcing, trade and India
• EU policy, Lisbon Strategy, European social models.

Current Responsibilities

• Skills utilisation
• Joint OECD/EC project on SMEs and skills.

Selected Publications

K Rüdiger (2008), 'The UK and India: the other 'special relationship'?', The Work Foundation.
K Rüdiger (2008), 'Towards a Global Labour Market?', The Work Foundation.
K Rüdiger (2007), 'Offshoring, a threat to the UK's knowledge jobs?', The Work Foundation.
K Rϋdiger & A McVerry (2007), 'Exploiting Europe's Knowledge Potential: 'good work' or 'could do better', The Work Foundation.
M Mahdon & K Rϋdiger, I Brinkley & D Coats (2007), 'What you get is not what you see – intangible assets in the knowledge economy', The Work Foundation.
K Rϋdiger (2006) 'Old' Europe, new Europe? Demography, labour markets and social policy', European Policy Centre.