Daniel Kostzer is currently coordinator of the Social Development Cluster at the UNDP’s Buenos Aires office. He is also director of research and macroeconomic coordination of the Ministry of Labor, Employment, and Social Security of Argentina. He has been a consultant for the ILO, ECLAC, and UNDP on issues related to employment, income distribution, and employment policies, and is a member of the knowledge networks of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, ILO. Kostzer has been a lecturer on Argentinean social structure at the University of Buenos Aires, a visiting professor of labor economics at UMKC, a research associate at CFEPS, and a member of the editorial committee of the journal Estudios del Trabajo of ASET (Association of Labor Studies Experts of Argentina). Formerly, he was also an advisor of the National Lower Chamber and director of the CEDENOA (Center of Studies of the Argentinean Northern Region). His graduate studies were at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands.