Ms Natalia Popova is a labour economist with the ILO Labour Migration Branch. Previously, she worked as Employment and Skills Development Specialist with the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Central and Eastern Europe, based in Budapest, Hungary. She has been engaged in delivering technical assistance on employment, vocational education and training, and labour migration. Areas of research interest include links between labour migration and skills issues, return migration, social inclusion and youth employment.