Markus Ruck holds a Master’s degree in Socioeconomics from the Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Before joining the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific, based in Bangkok, as senior specialist on Social Protection in April 2018, he served for nearly nine years as senior social security specialist at the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for South Asia based in New Delhi. Prior to his assignment in New Delhi, he worked for nearly six years as senior social security specialist at the ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe. Prior to his assignment in Harare, he worked for eight years at the ILO Sub-Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest, Hungary as social security specialist. Before joining the ILO Office in Budapest, he worked at the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs as senior social security specialist.