Sandra Polaski is the Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs at the Department of Labor, where she heads the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB). She was sworn in on April 27, 2009. Ms. Polaski is responsible for formulation of international economic, trade and labor policies in collaboration with other U.S. government agencies. She also oversees ILAB's research on international labor issues and international technical assistance in support of U.S. foreign labor policy objectives.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Polaski was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she directed the Trade, Equity and Development Program. The Carnegie Endowment is a global think tank with offices in Washington, Beijing, Moscow, Beirut and Brussels. Her work focused on trade, development, livelihood and income distribution issues.
Ms. Polaski earlier served as the US Secretary of State's Special Representative for International Labor Affairs. She was responsible for incorporating labor and livelihood issues into US foreign policy under Secretaries Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell. Previously, Ms. Polaski was the Director of Economic and Labor Law Research for the Secretariat of the North American Commission on Labor Cooperation, a NAFTA-related body.
Ms. Polaski holds M.A. degrees from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the University of Wisconsin and a B.A. from the University of Dayton.
Marcia Eugenio is currently serving as the Acting Associate Under Secretary for International Affairs. She was appointed to the Department’s Career Senior Executive Service in March 2005 and regularly serves as the Director of the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT).
In her capacity as Director of OCFT, Ms. Eugenio leads a team of 35 employees who are responsible for preparing and publishing annual Congressionally-mandated reports on international child labor issues, administering almost $600 million in grants to organizations engaged in efforts to eliminate exploitive child labor around the world, administrating Executive Order 13126, which prohibits federal agencies from purchasing goods made with forced and indentured child labor, and implementing requirements under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 related to trafficking in persons, child labor, and forced labor.
Ms. Eugenio has 17 years of Federal government experience — most of it at the Department of Labor. She also served on a temporary assignment as a Senior Program Officer at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Ms. Eugenio received a Bachelors Degree in International Studies from the City College of New York in 1989 and a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan in 1991.
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