David Atchoarena is Director of the Division for Education Strategies and Capacity Building at UNESCO. Prior to holding this post, he served as Senior Programme Specialist at UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in Paris where, since 2006, he was heading the Training and Education Programmes Unit, including the IIEP Masters Programme in Educational Planning and Management.  Before joining the Institute in 1991 he served as Chargé de Mission at the National Agency for Lifelong Education (ADEP) of the French Ministry of Education, and as Project Coordinator in the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Saint Lucia. David Atchoarena is also Special Professor at the University of Nottingham and he holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

David is participating in the Skills development: lessons from the European experience session.