Abbas Karimi is Research and Planning Deputy at Instructor Training Center & Technical and Vocational Researches (ITC) and Head of Iran UNEVOC Center. He is on a mission to help technical and vocational education and training (TVET) trainers and teachers build, grow, promote and foster their valuable profession and provide international supports for promoting skill training in ITC. He received the M.A. in Entrepreneurship Training from the University of Tehran. He has worked at ITC, a unique agency affiliated with Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization (Iran TVTO) for 22 years, the first 10 years; he was a master trainer in the fields of entrepreneurship, job instruction technique, and vocational pedagogy. He has been active in the area of a train of trainers (TOT) with a focus on pedagogy, entrepreneurship, and TVET. His international experience includes programs and consultancies in Japan, India, and Russia, key speakers in Korea, Australia, and Thailand as a TVET researcher and as an effective modern leader and coordinator of Iran UNEVOC center. As well, he was Iran national team member in 4 World Skills International (WSI), Helsinki-2005, London-2011, Sao Paulo-2015 and Abu Dhabi, 2017. His current research topics involve study of the future skills in green economy and (greening TVET) green jobs and skills curriculum development, significance of soft skills on TVET, pedagogical competencies for TVET trainers and entrepreneurial pedagogy. He is a member of Curriculum Development Committee for entrepreneurship and business skills, and skill evaluation/testing team. He has held lecturing positions and training workshops at many national industries and organizations. He has published more than 10 scientific papers in the field of TVET, entrepreneurship training, business skills, skill training and competition, pedagogy. Having more than 5000 pages translation in the field, he published the books entitled “Entrepreneurship Training Games”, and “Pedagogy, and Technical and Vocational Training”. He has the certificates from International Training Center International Labor Organization (ITC-ILO), UNESCO-UNEVOC Center for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, and Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) on “Entrepreneurship TOT”. These days, he is working on new subjects about “New Learning Methods in TVET”, “business model development for TVET institutes”, “Innovation in TVET” and “Greening and digitalizing TVET”. Throughout his 22- year tenure with ITC, he has built a reputation for TVET research, pedagogy, business skills training, entrepreneurship, new and modern teaching and learning methods in TVET, and training games. He also developed and managed training programs in entrepreneurship for leading enterprises in order to train in-company trainers.