Alison Crabb, Head of Unit “Skills and Qualifications", European Commission, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion  

Alison Crabb, has worked at the European Commission since 1999, and currently heads the Skills and Qualifications Unit in DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. Her team works with Member States, social partners and other stakeholders to help adults across Europe upgrade their skills and make skills and qualifications more easily understood across borders. Coordinating the European Skills Agenda, its flagship initiative that opens up upskilling and reskilling opportunities for adults and includes the Pact for Skills and Individual Learning Accounts, she is also responsible for one of the EU’s best known tools supporting learning and working across borders, the European Qualifications Framework.  

Her previous work in the Commission includes both policy and funds management in vocational education and training, adult learning, and school education.