Maria Rosa De Paolis is responsible of policies and programmes on Child Labour and Forced Labour in high prevalence sectors and global value chains, manager of projects promoting labour rights and decent work in garment value chains, corporate social responsibility and consumers’ awareness. She is also in charge of communications activities to share knowledge and raise awareness in those areas. She matured a long experience in development cooperation at the European Commission in Brussels and sub-Saharan Africa, and has a University degree in Social Communications and a Master's in Development Studies.
The event aims to share knowledge and exchange best practices on how to eliminate child labour in key value chain sectors exposed to increasingly global challenges.