Economic Growth
Migration is a global strategic asset. We must not undermine it
Remittances outstrip foreign direct investment to low- and middle-income countries. That's just one of the reasons migration is a global strategic asset.
Marie McAuliffe
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.
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