8:30AM
REGISTRATION OPENS

9:00AM – 9:15AM
WELCOME

Karen Grisez
Special Counsel, Public Service Counsel
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio
Bishop of Brooklyn

9:15AM-10:40AM
SESSION I | IMMIGRATION POLICY AND CONSEQUENCES IN THE TRUMP ERA

Over the last year, the Trump administration has sought to restrict immigration and refugee resettlement to the United States and end policies protecting those already in the country – including terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, eliminating Temporary Protected Status for certain immigrants, restricting the number of refugees, and increasing deportations of unauthorized migrants. This session described these shifts as well as nationalist sentiment underlying these changes, and the possible long- and short-term consequences.

Introduction
Douglas Gurak
Editor, International Migration Review
Center for Migration Studies
Professor Emeritus of Development Sociology
Cornell University

Keynote
Katharine M. Donato
Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Respondent
Tara Magner

10:40AM-10:50AM
BREAK

10:50AM-11:05AM
MODEL INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY CONVENTION

The Model International Mobility Convention sets forth a comprehensive legal framework to address the movement of individuals across borders, including visitors, students, tourists, labor migrants, entrepreneurs, long-term residents, asylum seekers, and refugees. It addresses the growing gaps in protection and responsibility that are leaving migrants vulnerable. One year after introducing the Convention at CMS’s annual academic and policy conference, Professor Michael Doyle returned to report on the final version of the treaty. He highlighted key provisions, explained efforts to circulate the document, and enlisted support for the Convention.

Michael Doyle
Director of the Global Policy Initiative and University Professor
Columbia University

11:05AM-12:30PM
SESSION II | THE PROMISE, POTENTIAL AND PITFALLS OF “BIG DATA” IN IMMIGRATION SCHOLARSHIP 

This panel explored the implications of “big data,” the growing number of incredibly large data sets, for the study and management of international migration. Its themes included the benefits and shortcomings of big data in the study of migration, different kinds of big data used to analyze migration trends, and the overall relevance and predictive capability of big data vis-a-vis global migration trends.

Moderator
Jamie Winders
Incoming Editor, International Migration Review
Center for Migration Studies
Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University

Panelists
Susan Martin
Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration
Georgetown University
Chair of Knowledge Partnership in Migration and Development (KNOMAD)
The World Bank

Susan McGrath
Professor and Resident Scholar, Centre for Refugee Studies
York University

Bryan Roberts
Adjunct Research Associate
Institute for Defense Analyses

12:30PM-1:30PM
LUNCH
Provided in the City Hall Room (24th Floor)

1:30PM-3:00PM
SESSION III | US IMMIGRATION REFORM OVER THE LONG-TERM

This session discussed the need for long-term reform of US immigration law and policy, looking beyond the current US immigration debate. It critiqued different aspects of the US immigration system, made recommendations for their reform, and discussed relevant research needs and projects. Panelists touched on findings and recommendations set forth in articles in both the International Migration Review and the Journal on Migration and Human Security (JMHS)’s special collection on US immigration reform.

Moderator
Karen Grisez
Special Counsel, Public Service Counsel
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Panelists
Jeanne Atkinson
Executive Director
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

Donald Kerwin
Executive Director
Center for Migration Studies

Pia Orrenius
Vice President and Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

3:00PM-3:15PM
BREAK

3:15PM-3:30PM
REFUGEE YOUTH ENGAGEMENT IN POLICYMAKING

Aya Alkhdair, a University of Southern Maine student who fled Sudan with her family, discussed the struggles and challenges of refugee youth (like herself), and the need to involve youth in refugee policymaking, given their unique vulnerabilities and potential.

Aya Alkhdair
Refugee Youth Representative
Student, University of Southern Maine

3:30PM-5:00PM
SESSION IV | THE REFUGEE AND MIGRATION COMPACTS: CONTENT AND INTERSECTION

Panelists discussed the development of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Responsibility-Sharing for Refugees, two processes born out of the New York Declaration on the Large Movement of Migrants and Refugees. Common issues between the two compacts were identified and opportunities for influencing the substance of the documents offered.

Moderator
Michele Pistone
Associate Editor, Journal on Migration and Human Security
Center for Migration Studies
Professor of Law and Director of the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES)
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Panelists
Kevin Appleby
Senior Director of International Migration Policy
Center for Migration Studies

Christine Matthews
Senior Policy Advisor
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration

Suzanne Sheldon
Senior Policy Advisor, Global Compact on Migration
International Organization for Migration Office to the United Nations

Davide Torzilli
Senior Policy Adviser
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Aya Alkhdair
Refugee Youth Representative
Student, University of Southern Maine

Aya Alkhdair is a youth advocate, a student, and a daughter. She attends University of Southern Maine, where she is completing her degree in Human Biology and Biochemistry. She is a certified Medical Interpreter (Arabic-English) and has worked closely with the refugee and immigrant communities in Maine, where she resides. Ms. Alkhdair’s passion is unrelenting; she jumps into every opportunity that advances diversity, awareness, humanitarianism, and inclusion. She has taken part in initiatives that support refugee youth involvement in humanitarian work, and attended multiple conferences through which she assisted in creating goals to further support refugee populations in their cultural adjustments. Ms. Alkhdair is a refugee herself –– despite the fact she is now on a constant run to solidify her role in the humanitarian world, her being human and her past experiences have made her run through multiple hurdles along the way. However, she continues to persist and influence.

Kevin Appleby
Senior Director of International Migration Policy
Center for Migration Studies

Kevin Appleby is the senior director of international migration policy for the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) and the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN). Prior to joining CMS and SIMN, Mr. Appleby served as the director of migration policy and public affairs for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for more than 16 years. He has also worked as deputy director of the Maryland Catholic Conference in Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Appleby has testified before Congress on immigration issues and represented the US Catholic bishops on these issues at public events and with the media. He is co-editor of the volume, On Strangers No Longer: Perspectives on the US-Mexican Catholic Bishop’s Pastoral Letter on Migration. Mr. Appleby worked for Senator Russell Long of Louisiana and select committees of the US Senate, including the Senate Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair. He received his BA from the University of Notre Dame, an MA in international affairs from George Washington University, and a law degree from the University of Maryland.

Jeanne Atkinson
Executive Director
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

Jeanne M. Atkinson is the executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC). Ms. Atkinson co-chairs the Committee for Immigration Reform Implementation and co-founded the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Representation Project to provide volunteer legal representation and advocacy on behalf of mothers and children held in Dilley and Karnes City, Texas. She speaks nationally on topics including the implementation of large-scale immigration programs and travels internationally to examine issues causing people to migrate and speak with government officials and other NGOs. Prior to joining CLINIC, Ms. Atkinson served as the director of Catholic Charities’ Immigration Legal Services program and the Refugee Center for the Archdiocese of Washington. She serves on the Board of Advisors of Catholics for Family Peace.

Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio
Bishop of Brooklyn

The Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio is a Roman Catholic Bishop. He has led the Diocese of Brooklyn since October 2003. He has been a forceful voice on behalf of migrants and immigrants since his Ordination to the Priesthood in 1970. Bishop DiMarzio received a master’s degree in social work from Fordham University, and a doctorate in social work research and policy from Rutgers University. In 1976, Bishop DiMarzio was appointed refugee resettlement director and the director of the Office of Migration at Catholic Community Services for the Archdiocese of Newark. In 1985, he was appointed executive director of Migration and Refugee Services for the US Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington and in 1986, was named Prelate of Honor by Pope John Paul II. In 1999, he was appointed Sixth Bishop of Camden. He frequently testified on matters affecting migrants and immigrants before the committees of the US House of Representatives. From 2003 to 2005, Bishop DiMarzio served as the US representative on the Global Commission on International Migration, a 19-member body sponsored by the United Nations. The Bishop also serves as board chair for the Center for Migration Studies of New York as well as the Migration Policy Institute.

Katharine M. Donato
Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration
Georgetown University

Katharine M. Donato is the Donald G. Herzberg Professor of International Migration and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her work examines many research questions related to migration, including the economic consequences of US immigration policy; health effects of Mexico-US migration; immigrant parent involvement in schools; deportation and its effects for immigrants; the great recession and its consequences for Mexican workers; and globalization and unauthorized migration. Professor Donato has two active research projects: the first examines how environmental conditions affect out-migration from communities in southwestern Bangladesh, and the second considers how well US protections for child migrants dovetail with governmental practices and policies. In August 2016, her book, Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age (co-authored with Donna Gabaccia), received Honorable Mention from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association. Professor Donato has taught previously at Louisiana State, Vanderbilt, and Rice Universities.

Michael W. Doyle
Director of the Global Policy Initiative and University Professor
Columbia University

Michael W. Doyle is the director of the Columbia Global Policy Initiative and University Professor of Columbia University, affiliated with the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and Columbia Law School. At Columbia, he also co-directs a migration project with Alex Aleinikoff and Gregory Maniatis that organized a Private Sector Summit on Migration and Refugees. They are preparing, together with an international commission, a Model International Mobility Convention that defines the rights and responsibilities of individual who cross borders and the states they leave, transit and enter.

Previously, Professor Doyle served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser for policy planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In the 1990s, he was a member of a policy advisory committee for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Madame Sadako Ogata. In 2003, he chaired a group that produced a report on migration for United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. From 2006 to 2013, Professor Doyle was an individual member and the chair of the United Nations Democracy Fund, a fund established in 2005 by the United Nations General Assembly to promote grassroots democratization around the world. He currently chairs the board of the International Peace Institute.

Karen Grisez
Public Service Counsel
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Karen Grisez is full-time Public Service Counsel in the Washington, DC office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. In that capacity, she supports the firm’s attorneys in a variety of subject matter areas, including social security disability, landlord/tenant, family law, veterans benefits, and other civil litigation. Since the mid-1990s, Ms. Grisez has increasingly concentrated her practice in immigration matters. She is former Chair of and current Special Advisor to the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Commission on Immigration, is a member of the Advisory Board of the ABA’s Immigration Justice Project in San Diego, and is a former co-chair of the ABA Section of Litigation’s Immigration Litigation Committee. She is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, serves on its national Pro Bono Committee, and is a former trustee of the American Immigration Council. Ms. Grisez has been a volunteer case screener for the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) Pro Bono Project for over a decade. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and the Washington Council of Lawyers.‎

Ms. Grisez received her BA degree summa cum laude from the University of Maryland in 1987 and her JD from the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America in 1990. She has successfully represented numerous asylum applicants and other immigrants before US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Asylum Offices, Immigration Judges, the BIA, and in federal court, and litigates a variety of other immigration matters. She also speaks frequently on asylum and other immigration-related topics.

Douglas Gurak
Editor, International Migration Review
Center for Migration Studies
Professor Emeritus of Development Sociology
Cornell University

Douglas T. Gurak is professor emeritus of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, he spent 15 years researching and teaching in New York City at the Center for Policy Research and Fordham University’s Hispanic Research Center and Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He received a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. At Cornell, Dr. Gurak served as the director of the Population and Development Program, the Polson Institute for Global Development, and the Graduate Field of Development Sociology. Since 2010, he has been a team member of the Institute for the Social Sciences’ interdisciplinary theme project, “Immigration: Settlement, Integration, and Membership.” Dr. Gurak’s research focuses on the process of human migration, and he is currently involved in the investigation of processes shaping the internal migration of foreign-born persons in the United States to non-traditional immigration destinations. This research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and involves working with confidential census data at the New York Census Research Data Center at Cornell and Baruch College. Dr. Gurak was appointed editor for the International Migration Review starting November 2014.

Donald Kerwin
Executive Director
Center for Migration Studies

Donald M. Kerwin, Jr. is executive director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS). The organization is an educational institute/think tank devoted to the study of international migration, to the promotion of understanding between immigrants and receiving communities, and to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants, refugees, and newcomers. CMS was established in 1964 by the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, Scalabrinians. It is a member of the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), which consists of more than 270 organizations that serve, safeguard, and advocate for migrants throughout the world. Mr. Kerwin previously worked for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) between 1992 and 2008, serving as its executive director (ED) for 15 years and its interim ED for six months in late 2012 and early 2013. Upon his arrival at CLINIC in 1992, he coordinated CLINIC’s political asylum project for Haitians. CLINIC, a subsidiary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), is a public interest legal corporation that supports a national network of several hundred charitable legal programs for immigrants. Between 2008 and 2011, Mr. Kerwin served as vice president for programs at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), where he wrote on immigration, labor standards, and refugee policy issues. He has also served as an associate fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center where he co-directed Woodstock’s Theology of Migration Project; a non-resident senior fellow at MPI; a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Immigration Task Force; a board member for Jesuit Refugee Services-USA, the Capital Area Immigrant Rights Coalition, and the Border Network for Human Rights; an advisor to the USCCB’s Committee on Migration; and a member of numerous advisory groups. Mr. Kerwin writes and speaks extensively on immigration policy, refugee protection, access to justice, national security, and other issues.

Tara Magner

Tara Magner is director of the Chicago Commitment at the MacArthur Foundation. Previously, Ms. Magner served as a program officer in MacArthur’s US Programs, focusing on migration and policy research. Prior to her work at the MacArthur Foundation, she served as senior counsel to the Office of Senator Patrick Leahy, the Chairman of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary. In this role, her responsibilities included immigration, refugee protection, human rights, and national security matters, among others. After the 2008 election, Ms. Magner was a member of President Obama’s Transition Policy Working Group on Immigration. She has also served as a commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration; director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center; and deputy director of the Winston Foundation. She has published articles with the Journal on Migration and Human Security, the International Journal of Refugee Law, and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Ms. Magner holds a BA from Wesleyan University and JD from Georgetown Law.

Susan Martin
Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emeritus of International Migration
Georgetown University
Chair of Knowledge Partnership in Migration and Development (KNOMAD)
World Bank

Susan Martin is the Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emeritus in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She previously served as the director of Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of International Migration. She currently serves as the chair of the Thematic Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration for the Knowledge Partnership in Migration and Development (KNOMAD) at the World Bank. Before coming to Georgetown, Dr. Martin served as the executive director of the US Commission on Immigration Reform, established by legislation to advise Congress and the president on US immigration and refugee policy. Her most recent book publications include International Migration: Evolving Trends from the Early Twentieth Century to the Present; Migration and Humanitarian Crises: Causes, Consequences and Responses; and A Nation of Immigrants. Dr. Martin received her MA and PhD in the history of American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. She previously taught at Brandeis University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Christine Matthews
Senior Policy Advisor
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration

Christine Matthews is the Senior Policy Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration. Previously, Ms. Matthews served as Deputy Director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR’s) office in New York which engaged extensively in the preparation of the New York Declaration. In the past few years, she has focused on the protection crisis in Syria and its impact on the region as well on the protection crisis in Iraq. Over her 20 year career, Ms. Matthews has served in a vast array of field operations, addressing multiple complex and protracted refugee and displacement emergencies, including Iraq, Jordan, southern Turkey, Sri Lanka, Darfur, Ethiopia, Kosovo, and Bosnia Herzegovina. She has also served with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), supporting their human rights field presence in Nepal, and with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Human Rights Unit. Ms. Matthews has a Masters of Art in Philosophy and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews.

Susan McGrath
Professor and Resident Scholar, Centre for Refugee Studies
York University

Susan McGrath, C.M. is Professor at the School of Social Work, York University where she served as Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies from 2004-2012; she is a past president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM). Her research interests include refugee studies, community and social development, and critical social work. She is currently leading three major research initiatives, all funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC): 1) a “big data” initiative studying indicators of forced displacement in Iraq; 2) the global Refugee Research Network of refugee researchers and practitioners; and 3) a collaborative social work project with the School of Social Work at the University of Rwanda. She is also part of an SSHRC research project that is exploring the potentials of Digital Assistive Technology and Special Education in Kenya and co-principal investigator of a Canadian Institute for Health Research Grant studying the health outcomes of Syrian refugees in three Canadian provinces. Professor McGrath was awarded the 2015 SSHRC Partnership Impact Award for forging innovative, interdisciplinary, equitable, and cross-sector partnerships in the field of forced migration. In 2014, she was invested into the Order of Canada in recognition of her outstanding achievement in research and policy on refugee rights and for fostering collaboration amongst scholars in her field.

Pia Orrenius
Vice President and Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Pia Orrenius is a labor economist working on regional economic growth and demographic change. Ms. Orrenius manages the regional and microeconomics group in the Dallas Fed Research Department, is executive editor of the quarterly publication Southwest Economy and co-edited Ten Gallon Economy: Sizing up Economic Growth in Texas (2015, Palgrave MacMillan). Her academic research focuses on the labor market impacts of immigration, unauthorized immigration and US immigration policy. She is coauthor of the book Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization (2010, AEI Press).

Ms. Orrenius is affiliated with several academic institutions. She is research fellow at the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and at the IZA Institute of Labor in Bonn, Germany, as well as adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is also adjunct professor at Baylor University (Dallas campus), where she teaches in the executive MBA program. Ms. Orrenius was senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, Washington DC, in 2004-2005, where she advised the Bush administration on labor, health, and immigration issues. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and bachelor degrees in economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Bryan Roberts
Adjunct Research Associate
Institute for Defense Analyses

Bryan Roberts is an economist who has focused over the past decade on conducting quantitative research on issues related to immigration policy and border security. He currently works for the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federally-funded research and development center. He has also worked for private-sector economics consulting firms. In 2010, he was the assistant director for border and immigration programs of the Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). During 2005-2009, he also worked in DHS’s Office of Policy and its Science and Technology Directorate as an economist and program manager focusing on analysis of issues in the areas of immigration policy, nonimmigrant travel and trade, border security, and terrorism risk. In the 1990s and 2000s, he was a resident economic adviser in several countries in the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. He was also an assistant professor at the University of Miami during 1993-1998. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Suzanne Sheldon
Senior Policy Advisor, Global Compact on Migration
International Organization for Migration Office to the United Nations

Suzanne Sheldon joined the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in New York as a Senior Advisor, on a temporary assignment from the US Department of State, in March 2017. Ms. Sheldon leads the IOM New York-based team that is supporting the development of a Global Compact on Migration, as called for in the outcome document of the September 19, 2016 UN High Level Meeting on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants. IOM, a related organization to the United Nations, is the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration with 166 member states and offices in over 100 countries.

Prior to joining IOM, Ms. Sheldon was Director of the Office of International Migration in the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM). The office articulates and implements the foreign policy of the United States as it relates to international migration and manages programs to build the capacity of foreign governments to manage migration and provide assistance to vulnerable migrants.

Ms. Sheldon joined the Department of State in 1999. Before joining PRM, she led the Washington team that developed rule of law policy and programs for Iraq, and served in the US Embassies in Bogotá, Colombia, and Islamabad, Pakistan, where she worked on law enforcement and border security policy and programs.

Prior to joining the Department of State, Ms. Sheldon practiced law in Massachusetts for twelve years, working with the District Attorney’s Office in Northampton, Massachusetts, the US Attorney’s Office in Boston, and the law firm of Peabody & Arnold in Boston. She also lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Belfast, Northern Ireland. Ms. Sheldon is a graduate of Smith College, Boston College Law School, and the Harvard Kennedy School. She lives in New York.

Davide Torzilli
Senior Policy Adviser
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Davide Torzilli is currently the Senior Policy Advisor in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Office in New York, following the processes leading towards the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact on Migration. From July 2009 until April 2015, Mr. Torzilli served as the Senior Legal Advisor in the Bureau for the Americas at UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva, where he was in charge of policy, legal and protection issues within the Director’s Office.

With more than 21 years of experience with UNHCR, and different responsibilities around the world, Mr. Torzilli has acquired a deep knowledge of refugee and humanitarian issues. He started his career in Rwanda, initially as Protection Officer and later heading one of the UNHCR Field Offices in the country, supporting the emergency operation and the repatriation programs. He subsequently served at UNHCR Headquarters as Research Officer, contributing to the research on major refugee-producing countries for the benefit of states’ asylum adjudicators. In 2001, Mr. Torzilli joined the Bureau for the Americas, as Executive Assistant to the Director, which gave him the opportunity to broaden his experience from the perspective of UNHCR’s work in the Americas, and contribute to the protection and solutions strategy for refugees and internally displaced persons.

In 2005, Mr. Torzilli returned to Africa, as Senior Protection Officer of the UNHCR Operation in now Southern Sudan. He developed the operation’s protection strategy and contributed to the planning for the future repatriation in utmost challenging leaving and working conditions. In 2008, following a year as Coordinator of the Humanitarian Affairs Programme of an Italian think-tank, Mr. Torzilli returned to UNHCR as Senior Policy Officer in Ecuador, where he coordinated the country-wide assessment of the situation of refugees and developed the resulting strategy to address the identified gaps.

Jamie Winders
Incoming Editor, International Migration Review
Center for Migration Studies
Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University

Jamie Winders is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She was appointed editor of the International Migration Review, starting November 2017. Dr. Winders specializes in cultural and social geography and international migration. She co-edited The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography and published Nashville in the New Millennium: Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging with Russell Sage in 2013. She holds a PhD from the University of Kentucky.