By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nels Nordquist, a top economic aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, is leaving the White House to take a senior role at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, five sources familiar with the plans said.

Nordquist had served as deputy director for international economics at the National Economic Council, giving him a key role in overseeing U.S. sanctions policy and serving as the liaison or “sherpa” to the Group of Seven advanced economies and the Group of 20 major economies.

The sources said Nordquist, a former congressional staff aide, is slated to become the U.S. deputy director general at the ILO, a United Nations agency that works to establish and promote human and labor rights worldwide and addresses issues such as child labor, while p

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