Laura Addati, MS

Senior Maternity Protection and Work-Family Specialist
International Labour Organization (ILO), Switzerland

Laura Addati is a senior care policy specialist at the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch, Conditions of Work and Equality Department, of the International Labour Organization (ILO). She joined the ILO in 2004 and currently coordinates global policy research and technical assistance to governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations on care policies and gender equality at work. She has co-authored a number of ILO reports and publications on care leave, childcare services and work-life balance policies, including the recent ILO major report “Care at Work: Investing in care leave and services for a more gender equal world of work” (2022). Recently, she has led the development of the “ILO Care policy investment simulator”, the largest care policy-modelling tool available online in English, French and Spanish.

Disclosure(s): No relationship to disclose, including relevant financial relationships

Presentation(s):

• Plenary Session - Investing in Transformative Care Policy Packages: Parental Leave that Supports a Healthy and More Equal World

  Monday, August 14, 2023
  9:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT