Dr. Zafiris Tzannatos is currently a senior consultant for Development Strategy and Social Policy living in Jordan.  He has held senior university and research appointments in Europe since the 1970s and, more recently, he was Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at AUB.   He is a former advisor to the Managing Director of the World Bank, where he was also the manager for the MENA region and leader of the Global Child Labor Program that he initiated. More recently, Dr. Tzannatos was a senior advisor to 22 Arab States at the International Labour Organization, and prior to that, to governments in the Middle East and the GCC—including Lebanon (Ministry of Social Affairs), Qatar (Planning Council), and the UAE (Abu Dhabi Executive Council).  He has visited more than 80 countries, and worked with regional and international organizations as well as governments of industrialized, transition and emerging economies as well as fragile and conflict countries across all continents. Dr. Tzannatos’ publications include fifteen books and monographs, and more than 200 reports and papers in the areas of development strategy, labor economics, education, gender, child labor and broader social policy.