Plenary sessions
The IFMS included five high-level plenary sessions on topics such as improving the production of migration data, global initiatives on migration, public opinion and migration, data innovation and big data, and capacity building. These plenary sessions involved more than 30 high-level speakers from governments, international agencies, and private companies in 17 countries. Both OECD and non-OECD countries were represented.
Plenary session speakers
Louise Arbour | Special Representative for International Migration, United Nations, United States |
Grace Bediako | Former Head of the Ghana Statistical Service, National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Ghana |
Eva Åkerman Börje | Senior Policy Advisor to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for International Migration |
Oliver Chinganya | Director, African Centre for Statistics at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia |
Jon Clifton | Managing Partner, Gallup, United States |
Carol Coy | Director General, STATIN, Jamaica |
Martina del Corral Téllez | Secretaria General de Inmigración y Emigración, Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social, Spain |
Tim Dixon | Founder, More In Common, United Kingdom |
Martine Durand | Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Directorate, OECD, France |
Jørgen Elmeskov | Director General, Statistics Denmark, Denmark |
Leonello Gabrici | Head of Division for Migration and Human Security, European External Action Service, European Commission |
Angel Gurría | Secretary-General, OECD, France |
Petra Kaminsky | Head of dpa-Story, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), Germany |
Robert Kirkpatrick | Director, UN Global Pulse, United States |
Mari Kiviniemi | Deputy Secretary-General, OECD |
Mariana Kotzeva | Acting Director-General, Eurostat, Luxembourg |
Emmanuel Letouzé | Director, Data-Pop Alliance, United States |
Zhenmin Liu | Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, United States |
Claire Melamed |
Executive Director, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, United States |
Cock Overbeek | Vice President Space, CGI Group Inc., Netherlands |
Josie B. Perez | Deputy National Statistician, Philippine Statistics Authority, Philippines |
Gabriela Ramos | Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, OECD |
Markus Reisle | Head, Global Programme on Migration and Development, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Switzerland |
Emma Rourke | Director, Public Policy Analysis, Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom |
Dominik Rozkrut | President, Statistics Poland, Poland |
Stefano Scarpetta | Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, France |
Goetz Schmidt-Bremme | Ambassador, 2017-2018 Global Forum on Migration and Development Co-Chairmanship, Germany |
Stefan Schweinfest | Director, United Nations Statistics Division/Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNSD/DESA) |
Ineke Stoop | Deputy Director - Methodological, European Social Survey, Netherlands |
William Lacy Swing | Director General, International Organization for Migration, United States |
Laura Thompson | Deputy Director General, International Organization for Migration |
Volker Türk | Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR, Switzerland |
Edgar Vielma | Director General of Sociodemographic Statistics, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Mexico |
António Vitorino | Former European Commissionner for Justice and Internal Affairs, European Commission, Portugal |
John Wilmoth | Director of Population Division, United Nations, United States |
Emilio Zagheni | Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, United States |