Prof. Dr. Matthias Pilz addressed students about the skill development strategies of German companies in China, the USA, India and Japan. Vocational education training is imperative to generate productive employment for an estimated 15 million Indian youth annually. While India - and indeed a host of other countries including the USA, China and Japan - have struggled to scale up their training capacity, Teutonic countries, including Germany have been running structurally embedded vocational education systems for generations.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Pilz is considered the world's most productive researcher in the area of vocational education training and has also been consulted by the Indian government and other Indian regulatory bodies on policy interventions. We were honored, therefore, for the students of Dr. Caren Rodrigues' Organizational Behavior class, to have an opportunity to learn from and interact with Prof. Dr. Pilz. Students took back with them a deeper appreciation of the positive social and economic repercussions that may come about by addressing the training needs of Indian youth, and therefore make them capable of gainful employment.

Prof. Dr. Pilz is the Chair of Business Education and the Center for Vocational Education Training research at the School of Business and Economics at the University of Cologne. We thank him, in particular, for spending much time engaging with students' perceptive questions and explaining and clarifying the field with his extensive understanding and depth.

The event took place on August 21, 2024

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