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, Director of the Migration Shift Hub at PoliSync. Former Head, Migration Research Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva. Chief Editor, World Migration Report. 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, displacement, AI, data and irregular migration. Key publications include: World Migration Reports 2018, 2020, 2022 & 2024 editions, 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 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. Awarded the 2018 Charles Price Prize for outstanding doctoral research.