Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song has worked in the field of infrastructure development and employment creation, environmental restoration and public works programmes for more than 20 years. Since 2015 he works in the Technical Specialist Employment Intensive Investment Programme of the International Labour Organization. Maikel is a Suriname national and holds a B.Sc. degree from Cornell University in the, USA and an MSc degree from IHE Delft/ Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, both in Civil & Environmental Engineering.