Cecile Riallant

Cécile Riallant is a senior migration, displacement and development expert with 22 years of experience. She is currently leading the work of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on migration and development as Head of the Migration and Sustainable Development Unit based at headquarters, Geneva. Previously, she was seconded to UNDP in Brussels to manage the UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI), the largest global UN programme on migration and development involving seven agencies. She joined the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2000, after three years of working as a researcher. She has managed for IOM numerous programmes and projects in the field of migration and displacement with geographical scope in the Great Lakes (Africa), Afghanistan, the Balkans and Europe. She was also Deputy Chief of Mission of the IOM Mission in Indonesia, working to support populations internally displaced by the 2004 tsunami and the conflict in North Sumatra. Ms. Riallant led the efforts to develop IOM’s flagship publication, Migration and the 2030 Agenda, and was a contributor to the 2015 World Migration Report on Migrants and Cities and the OECD report Perspectives on Global development 2017. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Migration Policy Practice and of the International Steering Committee of the civil society component of the Global Forum on Migration and Development. She holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Science Po), a Master of Science in European Studies from the University of Strasbourg and a Master of Science in Social Policies from the London School of Economics.