Mr Guy Ryder

Guy Ryder was elected as ILO Director-General by the ILO's Governing Body in May 2012 and took office on 1 October 2012.

Guy Ryder has some thirty years of experience in the world of work, most of it at the international level. During that time he has occupied positions of leadership at the global level and been called upon to manage complex processes of change and situations of considerable political sensitivity in all regions of the world.

He has served the ILO in senior positions and occupied posts of key political responsibility in its constituent structures. In these different capacities he has demonstrated real and consistent commitment to the Organization’s values and objectives and been active as a practitioner of tripartism.

He has shown readiness and ability to reach out across individual constituent groups in the interests of consensus in a diverse range of circumstances and debates. With a career spent largely in an international environment, he has developed capacity and enthusiasm for working in a multi-cultural and multi-lingual setting.

He has been called upon to lead international organizations where effective use of limited resources was a high priority, and to take them successfully through complex processes of structural change.”