International migration specialist with over 25 years of experience as a practitioner, program manager, senior official, analyst, researcher and more recently in academia at the Australian National University (PhD in Demography; migration). Currently, Head, Migration Research Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva. Chief Editor, World Migration Report and Convenor of IOM's Gender and Migration Research Policy Action Lab (GenMig). Senior Fellow, Global Migration Centre, Graduate Institute, Geneva. Member of MIT's Global Technology Review Panel and Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review. Elected Member, Academic Council of the United Nations System. Published widely in academic and policy literature on migration, gender, AI, data and irregular migration. Key publications include: World Migration Reports 2018, 2020 & 2022 editions (2024 edition out 1st quarter 2024), book on gender, migration and covid (published by Edward Elgar Publishing, January 2024), migration and digital technology (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) irregular migration (ANU Press, 2017) and many articles/blogs on AI, displacement, gender, irregular migration and migrant smuggling for the Forum and other journals/outlets. 2012-15, Director, Irregular Migration Research Program, Australian Department of Immigration. Previous postings in Moscow, Seoul, Ankara; currently based in Geneva.
Migration is a cornerstone of global development and human progress, representing a major global strategic asset. But it is often shrouded in misconceptions and misrepresentations. This I...
The evidence is clear. The long-term trend data speaks for itself: migration is a major driver of human development globally. This “home truth” has even defied predictions that the COVID-...
Many analysts and commentators have argued that the world has entered a post-human rights phase, with sustained undermining of human rights and the rule of law around the world. Unfortuna...
Artificial intelligence (AI) in migration and mobility systems has recently become a hot topic in research and policy circles, given the heightened prominence of the technology.
Around the world, more than 281 million people are living, working or seeking refuge in a country other than their country of origin. People migrate for a wide variety of reasons and migr...
Twenty years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda, the country that was widely considered a haven for those behind the attacks – Afghanistan – is again without a functioning gover...
It is right that our collective concerns are first and foremost for people who are at greater risk of dying from COVID-19. However, we must also recall that this pandemic is also on track...
Few issues have been as dominant and enduring in political and public discourse as migration. Around the world, but especially in Europe and North America, international migration has com...
On this International Migrants Day, we should celebrate the wide-ranging contributions migrants have made to all of our lives and societies. None of us would be where we are if our ancest...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is fundamentally reshaping our economies, social interactions and collective security. Alongside these changes, and most obviously in the political sphere...
L'Afrique est souvent décrite dans les médias comme un continent d'exode massif. Des images d'Africains désespérés à bord de bateaux surpeuplés à destination de l'Europe, ou de migrants b...
Africa is often depicted in the media as a continent of mass exodus. Images of desperate Africans on overcrowded boats bound for Europe, or those of stranded migrants in transit countries...
