The expected appointment of a close Donald Trump advisory to a top post at the International Labour Organization has sparked criticism internally, with Washington owing the UN agency tens of millions in dues.

Several well-informed sources told AFP that Nels Nordquist, a former top economic advisor to the US president, would soon be named the ILO’s deputy director-general — a position usually held by a US national.

The organisation itself declined to comment.

But the expected appointment has caused unease in Geneva, after his wife Jennifer Nordquist — also a former Trump advisor — took up the role of deputy head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) last month, which is also headquartered in the Swiss city.

“We have many questions about the situation,” Severine Deboos, head of the ILO s

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