LIM LIN LEAN is a development economist by training. She was Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Malaya before joining the International Labour Organization. At the ILO, her positions included being Deputy Regional Director of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Since retiring from the ILO, she has been working as a consultant with a position as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Khazanah Research Institute and serving on the Board of Trustees for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and as Director on the Board of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), which is a global research-policy network.
Building Back Better – The Gig Economy in a Post-COVID-19 World
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market has been devastating. Global working-hour losses have escalated, equivalent to an increase from 160 million to 495 million fulltime jobs between the first and second…
