Mr. John Bliek

Specialist, Sustainable Enterprise Development and Job Creation

John Bliek graduated of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands on Development Studies. After this he has been working for the past 20 years on business development services and microfinance, territorial competitiveness, inclusive local economic and sector development and entrepreneurship.

Between 2001-2008 he worked in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua; and between 2008-2014 he coordinated an entrepreneurship promotion and microfinance programme in 12 countries. At the same time he was part of the Board of Directors of the European Microfinance Platform.

John was the Enterprise Specialist in our Moscow office where he took up his first assignment with the ILO in 2014.  He then moved to the ILO Office for the Andean Countries where he worked for 5 years prior to joining the ILO DWT and Office for the Caribbean in March 2022.