PESPod is the podcast of the PES Network. Each episode invites different guests from across the Network, giving a new way to keep in touch with perspectives on issues being talked about by Public Employment Services across Europe. Listen to the latest episodes here.
Latest episodes

With Dr Willem Pieterson, author of the recently published PES Network Report ‘Opportunities of AI within PES processes and services’ and Andreas Henningsson, Senior Strategist and Product Area Manager for AI and Data at Arbetsförmedlingen (the Swedish PES).

With Maarten Camps, Chair of the Board at UWV, the Social Security and Public Employment Agency of the Netherlands.

With Frank-Jürgen Weise: First Chair of the PES Network from 2014 to 2016 and former Chairman of the Executive Board of BA, the German PES; Fons Leroy: Former Chair of the PES Network from 2016 to 2018, and former CEO of VDAB, the PES of the region of Flanders in Belgium; Johannes Kopf: Former Chair of the PES Network from 2019 to 2023 and current Chair of the Executive Board of AMS, the Austrian PES; and Caroline Mancel: Current Chair of the PES Network Caroline Mancel, Deputy Director General of Actiris (the PES of the Brussels capital region).

With Inga Balnanosienė, Director of the Lithuanian Public Employment Service (PES) and First Vice Chair of the PES Network since January 2024.

With Spiros Protopsaltis, Chairman of the Board of Directors of DYPA, the Greek Public Employment Service, and former First-Vice Chair of the European Network of Public Employment Services (PES Network).

With Caroline Mancel, Chair of the PES Network and Deputy Director General of Belgian PES Actiris.

With Kristina Fleischer from the Croatian PES (HZZ) and Bernd Becking from the PES Network Secretariat in the European Commission.

With Łukasz Sienkiewicz a PES expert and an academic at Gdańsk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska) in Poland.

With Johannes Kopf, head of the Austrian PES (AMS) and chair of the PES Network, is joined by Ewa Flaszynska, Director of labour market department at the Polish PES.

With Evita Simsone, head of the Latvian PES (NVA), and HR expert Pārsla Baško.

With Caroline Mancel, deputy CEO of the Brussels Region PES, Actiris and Bjoern Storim, CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV.

With Mike Keesman from the Dutch PES (UWV) and Anne-Greet Keizer, Research Fellow at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR).

With Deputy Director Haakon Hertzberg from the Norwegian PES (NAV).

With French PES (Pole Emploi) Deputy Director-General, Paul Bazin, Isabelle Charelle of the PES office in Bourg-en-Bresse, and Director of International Relations, Florence Dumontier.

With Arbetsformedlingen, the Swedish PES.

With Federico Muniz, Deputy General Director of Statistics and Information and Maria-Jose Arias, Head of Guidance and International Programmes at SEPE.

With European Commissioner Nicolas Schmit.

With Inga Balnanosiene, Head of the Lithuanian PES.

With Caroline Mancel, ACTIRIS interim Director General.

With Dr. Spiros Protopsaltis, Chairman of the Board of Directors of DYPA, the Greek Public Employment Service, and former First-Vice Chair of the European Network of Public Employment Services (PES Network).

With Erik Oftedal, a sociologist giving strategic advice to the Head of the Norwegian PES and Renata Haublein part of the senior management in Europe’s largest PES, the BA in Germany.

With Isabelle Schlesser, Head of the Luxembourg PES.

With Maarten Camps, Head of the Dutch PES, and Johannes Kopf, Head of the Austrian PES and the PES Network.

With the Austrian PES Managing Director Johannes Kopf, current chair of the PES Network.