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Justin Sykes BA (Hons), MSc
Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Consultant

Justin Sykes is a consultant in the field of youth employment and enterprise development. He has worked with a number of clients, including the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Regional Office for the Arab States, the United Nations (UN) and the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID).

Justin previously worked for over four years with the UN Secretary General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN). The YEN is a global partnership under the leadership of the UN, the World Bank and the ILO, which works with partner countries around the world to assist them implement innovative youth employment policies and programmes.

As a member of the YEN Secretariat, Justin was responsible for advising YEN partner countries in Africa and the Middle East. He also took the policy lead on the thematic issue of entrepreneurship and had the task of building strong partnerships with two key constituencies within the network - the youth and private sectors.

Justin’s other professional experience ranges from working on corporate social responsibility and youth entrepreneurship issues for the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), a London based non-governmental organisation (NGO), to participation in a post-war reconstruction and development project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He holds an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Modern History from the University of Birmingham. 

Justin has undertaken extensive field mission travel to developing economies and, when growing up, lived for six years in the Netherlands, six years in Borneo, Malaysia, four years in Norway and four years in the Sultanate of Oman.

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