Sandra Polaski is a senior research scholar of the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. Ms. Polaski is an expert on trade, labor and social policy issues at national and global levels.  She was the Deputy Director-General for Policy of the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 2012-2016 and served as ILO Sherpa to the G20. Earlier she was the U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Labor in charge of the International Labor Affairs Bureau and before that she directed the Trade, Equity and Development Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.