Irène Hors is deputy director for public governance at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Together with the public governance teams, Irène supports the OECD member and partner countries in designing and implementing strategic, evidence-based and innovative policies to strengthen public governance, respond to diverse and disruptive challenges and deliver on government's commitments to citizens. Human resources management, budgeting, regulatory policy, public sector innovation, risk management, and transparency and integrity are among the key work streams of public governance at the OECD. From 2013-2018, Irène was in charge of the strategic coordination of OECD's collaboration with Brazil, China and India, and of the Organisation's Regional Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean. Between 2007 and 2013, she served as the first OECD senior advisor based in Beijing. From 2007 to 2010, she also worked as advisor to the secretary-general of the China Development Research Foundation, a high-level think tank in the Chinese government sphere. From 1997 to 2007, Irène held positions in various OECD Directorates where she led projects in the areas of anti-corruption, trade facilitation, public procurement, public governance, and regional development. Prior to this, Irène worked as an independent consultant on infrastructure development, industrial clusters and urban development, and taught economic growth theories in University Paris X Nanterre.. In 1994, she was selected as IIASA Young Scientist and was nominated as Yale World Fellow in 2005. She speaks French, English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. Irène graduated from École Polytechnique and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and has a master's degree in economics from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.