Peter Scherer
Head of the Health Division
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Peter Scherer is the Head of the Health Division at the OECD, Paris. After studying at the Monash University, the Australian National University and Cornell University in the US, he lectured at Sydney University and was a research fellow at the Australian National University. He then worked in various Australian Government Departments, eventually becoming Acting Director of the Bureau of Labour Market Research. When that Bureau was abolished in 1986, he came to the OECD, initially heading the Division responsible for the annual OECD Employment Outlook. From 1991 to June 2002 he was Head of the Social Policy Division, and was counsellor to the Director of the Employment and Social Affairs Directorate until December 2004. He has published in the fields of labour economics, industrial relations, comparative social expenditures and social policy trends.