Monika Queisser

OECD

Head of Social Policy

Biography

Monika Queisser is the Head of Social Policy Division at the OECD, where she supervises and coordinates the work on social protection,gender equality, pensions, family policies as well affordable and social housing,. Together with her team, she developed the OECD Gender Intiative which is now mainstreamed across the entire organisation, and launched together with the ILO and UN Women the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC). She is a member of the advisory board of the European Family Justice Centre Alliance, a group of social service providers that works to prevent and address gender-based violence, as well as a member of the French Conseil d’Orientation des Retraites, the Fondation des Sciences Sociales, and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute of Social Law and Social Policy. She was also a member of the 2026 German government’s old age security commission. Previously she worked at the World Bank and at the German Ifo Institute for Economic Research, and as a journalist at broadcasting in Germany.