Ilias Livanos is a Cedefop expert in Skills and the Labour Market. Working at Cedefop Department for VET and Skills, Ilias had led various flagship Cedefop projects, such as the Skills Forecast and the European skillsindex while he is currently serving as the department’s Strategic Outreach expert. Ilias is an economist by training, with a master’s degree in industrial relations and a PhD in employment research. Ilias worked in the UK academia (University of Warwick) for about a decade before joining Cedefop, teaching and conducting research in education, skills, and the labour market. His expertise is in labour economics, education economics, and industrial relations. Ilias blends quantitative and qualitative techniques and skills while he specialises in using large scale datasets, such as the European labour force survey.