Roberto Di Meglio is a Senior Technical Specialist at the International Labour Organization in Geneva. He mainly works on Local development and Social Economy.

He began his career with the ILO in 1989 working on cooperatives and local development in Argentina, Bolivia, Central America and the Caribbean, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. From 1999 to 2003 he was assigned to the ILO in Geneva where he coordinated the activities of the Local Economic Development Programme for Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. As Senior Employment Specialist in the ILO Office in Chile, from 2003 to 2008, he published several titles and articles on local development, supervised technical cooperation programmes and projects and promoted networking with other international organizations, training centres and academic institutions. Prior to his current position, he leaded a Project – Promotion of Decent Work and social cohesion – within the International Training Center of the ILO in Turin, Italy.

He co-authored and edited several ILO publications, in particular, “Social and Solidarity Economy: -building a common understanding” (2010);   “Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work” (2011); Social and Solidarity Economy: An opportunity to enhance youth employment” (2013); “Social and Solidarity Economy: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Development (2014).

He is co-editor of web sites on Social and Solidarity Economy at www.itcilo.org/socialeconomy and the “Collective Brain” at www.sseacb.net/