The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is an international organisation with currently 17 Member States whose purpose is to promote innovative, comprehensive and sustainable migration policies and to function as a service exchange mechanism for organisations and governments. Headquartered in Vienna, it has a mission in Brussels and a number of regional offices and representatives throughout Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. ICMPDs work is based on three pillars: Migration Dialogues, Capacity building and Research. The Vienna Migration Conference (VMC) is ICMPD’s annual flagship event for discussing the most challenging and politically relevant issues in the field of migration together with political decision-makers, government experts and representatives from the academic world, the media and civil society.
Roles/tasks in the project
ICMPD leads the stakeholder engagement and dialogue with policymakers and further seeks innovative options for the exploitation of results. In addition, ICMPD analyses protracted displacement situations in the Horn of Africa from a historical perspective and examines governance frameworks on displacement at the European and global level.
Team members involved in the project
Martin Wagner
Martin Wagner is Senior Policy Advisor for Asylum, with a legal background and specialisation in European and international refugee law. Before joining ICMPD, he worked for NGOs and the Human Rights Advisory Board in the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and implemented two twinning projects in Lithuania and Ukraine as Resident Twinning Advisor. Martin Wagner has more than 20 years of professional migration experience and has managed international projects in the field of migration and asylum for 16 years. He is an experienced trainer for authorities and civil society actors. He has authored or co-authored several comparative studies on European asylum systems as well as several working papers and blogs on the Common European Asylum System. His recent research focusses on solidarity, asylum responsibility sharing, harmonisation among EU Member States, complementary pathways to protection and the New Pact on Migration and Asylum.
Caitlin Katsiaficas
Caitlin Katsiaficas is a Policy Analyst in ICMPD’s Policy Unit. She is also a Non-Resident Visiting Scholar at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. Prior to joining ICMPD, she held positions at the Migration Policy Institute, World Bank, International Rescue Committee and George Washington University, in addition to internships with local and national refugee resettlement organisations in the United States. She holds an MA and BA in international affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where her studies centred on conflict, migration and development. Her recent research focusses on asylum, refugee resettlement, complementary pathways and talent attraction.
Camilla Fogli
Camilla Fogli is an Associate Project Officer at ICMPD. She holds an MA in comparative analysis of Mediterranean societies at the Rabat School of Governance and Economics, as well as an MA in Public and Political Communication at the University of Turin, Italy. She joined ICMPD's Policy Unit in 2019, where she works on several initiatives at the crossroads of digital communication and policy analysis, focussing mainly on the areas of migration narratives and communication, integration and legal migration. Before joining ICMPD, she worked for international and non-governmental organisations in the field of development and social innovation.
Team members formerly involved in the project
- Marion Noack
- Maegan Hendow