Thorben Albrecht

Thorben Albrecht is the Policy Director of IG Metall, the German metalworkers' trade union. His responsibilities include strategies and policies as well as representing the interests of IG Metall’s more than 2 million members vis a vis political institutions in Berlin and Brussels. He has been a member of the “Global Commission on the Future of Work” established by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as well as a State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Among his most important projects have been a law introducing a statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015 as well as the White Paper “Work 4.0” with policy recommendations on the future of work in 2016.

 

Twitter: @ThorbenAlbrecht