Ilze Zvidrina is Deputy Director of the Labour Market Policy Department in the Ministry of Welfare of Latvia and since February 2012 Vice-Chair of EU Employment Committee EMCO/ Chair of EMCO Ad Hoc Policy Group. She has studied at BA School of Business and Finance and at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel and has 10 years of experience in dealing with employment and labour market related policies and analysis including with active labour market programmes, minimum wage, mobility/migration, undeclared work, VET, employment protection legislation, social assistance a.o.