In order to prepare for the GFMD Civil Society Days, the Ayala Foundation has invited a panel of international experts to assist the foundation in engaging in research on a range of policy topics which will be discussed at both the Civil Society Days and Government Meeting of the GFMD.
Among the initial six topics selected, Coordinators have also been invited to guide the discussion and to remain in contact with each panel as research papers are prepared. The Ayala Foundation plans to convene two meetings of the coordinators and to post the papers in the Public Forum of this website for use in on-line discussion with other migration and development experts, advocates, and policy-makers.
The coordinators and experts for each topic are as follows :
Protecting the rights of migrants – A shared responsibility
Coordinator: Manolo Abella
Chief Technical Adviser
Asian Programme on Governance of Labour Migration
International Labour Organization
Writers: Susan Martinwith Rola Abimourched
Executive Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration
Herzberg Professor of International Migration
Georgetown University
Patricia Sto. Tomas
Former Secretary of Labor and Employment, Philippines
Chairman, Development Bank of the Philippines
Hamidou Ba
Expert Migrations Internationals
Empowering migrants and diaspora to contribute to development
Coordinator: Kathleen Newland
Director of Migrants, Migration, and Development and Refugee Protection Programs, and Member of the Board of Trustees
Migration Policy Institute
Fr. Fabio Baggio
Director, Scalabrini Migration Center
Manila, Philippines
Fostering more opportunities for legal migration
Coordinator: Philip Martin
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California at Davis
Writers: Philip Martin - North America Philip Martin - Europe
Graeme Hugo
University Professorial Research Fellow
Professor of Geography
Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of GIS
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Lawrence Dacuycuy
Chair, Department of Economics
De la Salle University - Manila, Philippines
Managing migration and minimizing the negative impacts of irregular migration
Coordinator: Khalid Koser
Fellow, Foreign Policy
Deputy Director, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Brookings Institute, Washington, DC
Writers: Khalid Koser
Nasra Shah
Professor
Faculty of Medicine
Kuwait University
Ronald Skeldon
Professorial Fellow in Geography
Sussex University
Jeff Crisp
Special Advisor on Policy and Evaluation
Policy Development and Evaluation Service
United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Susan Martin
Executive Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration
Herzberg Professor of International Migration
Georgetown University
Strengthening data and research tools on migration and development
Coordinator: Richard Black
Co-Director, Sussex Centre for Migration Research
Professor of Human Geography
University of Sussex
Writers: Michael Clemens
Research Fellow
Center for Global Development
Dr. Andrea Rossi
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Sussex Centre for Migration Research
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Dr. Adriana Castaldo (co-author)
Arts C333
Sussex Centre for Migration Research
University of Sussex
Policy and institutional coherence on migration and development within government
Coordinator: Susan Martin
Executive Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration
Herzberg Professor of International Migration
Georgetown University
Writers: Michael Jobbins
Georgetown University
Jeff Dayton-Johnson / Denis Drechsler / Jason Gagnon
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Regional Consultative Processes (RCPs) at the interface of migration and development
Coordinator: Michelle Klein Solomon
Director, Migration Policy, Research and Communications Department
International Organization for Migration
Writers: Michelle Klein Solomon and Cynthia Bryant
in collaboration with: Vincent Williams
Project Manager
Southern African Migration Project (SAMP)
