The Commission
The Model International Mobility Convention was developed by a Commission of eminent academic and policy experts in the fields of migration, human rights, national security, labor economics and refugee law. The Commission came together to debate and develop the Convention in workshops conducted regularly from spring 2015 until it was finalized in April 2017.

T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Commision MemberAlex Aleinikoff is a University Professor, and has served as Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility since January 2017.
Professor Aleinikoff received a J.D....Read More
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
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Rey Koslowski
Commision MemberRey Koslowski is Associate Professor of Political Science, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, Director of the Master of International Affairs program and an affiliat...Read More
Rey Koslowski
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Sarah Rosengaertner
Commision MemberSarah Rosengaertner is an expert on migration and development based in New York. Migration Consultant, UNICEF; Columbia Global Policy Initiative
Rosengaertner has served as a co...Read More
Sarah Rosengaertner
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Pierre Bertrand
Commision MemberIn the aftermath of some thirty years (1979-2009) of continuous service with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), including his posting as Director of UNHCR office in New York, Pierre no...Read More
Pierre Bertrand
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Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Commision MemberJagdish Bhagwati is a University Professor at Columbia University and Director of the Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies.
Bhagwati was aSenior Fellow in International Econom...Read More
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
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Joseph Blocher
Commision MemberJoseph Blocher is Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.
Blocher’s principal academic interests include federal and state constitutional law, the First and Second ...Read More
Joseph Blocher
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Sarah Cliffe
Commision MemberSarah F. Cliffe is currently the director of New York University’s Center on International Cooperation. Prior to that, she was the Special Representative for the World Bank’s W...Read More
Sarah Cliffe
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Michael W. Doyle
Commision MemberMichael W. Doyle is a University Professor at Columbia University, affiliated with the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and the Law ...Read More
Michael W. Doyle
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Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Commision MemberGuy S. Goodwin Gill is Professor of Law at UNSW and Acting Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. He is also Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and ...Read More
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
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Khalid Koser
Commision MemberDr. Khalid Koser is Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund.
Dr. Koser is also Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Broo...Read More
Khalid Koser
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Elora Mukherjee
Commision MemberElora Mukherjee is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Mukherjee is director of the Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, which provides high-quali...Read More
Elora Mukherjee
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Steven S. Nam
Commision MemberSteven S. Nam, Esq. is a commission member of the Model International Mobility Treaty Commission under Columbia University's Global Policy Initiative, where he is helping to draft ...Read More
Steven S. Nam
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Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and is a member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University.
Sassen's recent books are Territory, Authori...Read More
Saskia Sassen

Alicia Evangelides
SecreteriatAlicia Evangelides is a Senior Program Associate for the Rule of Law Index team at the World Justice Project.
Prior to joining the WJP, Alicia worked at Columbia University’s ...Read More
Alicia Evangelides
Secreteriat
E. Tendayi Achiume
Commision MemberE. Tendayi Achiume is Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She is also a Research Associate with the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witw...Read More
E. Tendayi Achiume
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Diego Acosta Arcarazo
Commision MemberDiego Acosta Arcarazo is a Reader in European and Migration Law at the University of Bristol.
Dr. Acosta was previously Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield and holds ...Read More
Diego Acosta Arcarazo
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Kiran Meisan Banerjee
Commision MemberKiran Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.
Before joining the University of Saskatchewan, Banerjee was a SSHRC ...Read More
Kiran Meisan Banerjee
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Elazar Barkan
Commision MemberElazar Barkan is Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Director of SIPA's Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration, and Director of Columb...Read More
Elazar Barkan
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Frans Bouwen
Commision MemberFrans Bouwen is the Founder and Director responsible for External Relations at the international foundation The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration (THP since 2000). THP is a c...Read More
Frans Bouwen
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François Crépeau
Commision MemberFrançois Crépeau is Full Professor and holds the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He was the United Natio...Read More
François Crépeau
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Yasmine Ergas
Commision MemberYasmine Ergas is Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy and Lecturer in Discipline in International and Public Affairs. She also directs the program in Gender a...Read More
Yasmine Ergas
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David FitzGerald
Commision MemberDavid Scott FitzGerald is Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.
FitzGer...Read More
David FitzGerald
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François Fouinat
Commision MemberAs a retired international civil servant, Mr. Fouinat has represented the United Nations in a number of important humanitarian functions in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. ...Read More
François Fouinat
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Justin Gest
Commision MemberJustin Gest is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. His teaching and research interests include comparative...Read More
Justin Gest
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Bimal Ghosh
Commision MemberBimal Ghosh has a long record of activities running concurrently between academia and international organizations. He is Emeritus Professor at Colombia’s Graduate School of Publi...Read More
Bimal Ghosh
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Randall Hansen
Commision MemberRandall Hansen is Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Canada Research ...Read More
Randall Hansen
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Donald M. Kerwin, Jr.
Commision MemberDonald M. Kerwin, Jr. has directed the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) since September 2011. He previously worked for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (C...Read More
Donald M. Kerwin, Jr.
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Ian Matthew Kysel
Commision MemberIan Matthew Kysel is the Dash/Muse Fellow with the Human Rights Institute. Before joining the Institute, he was the Aryeh Neier Fellow with the Human Rights Program of the American...Read More
Ian Matthew Kysel
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Susan Martin
Commision MemberSusan Martin is the Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration. She was the founder of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of ...Read More
Susan Martin
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Sarah Deardorff Miller
Commision MemberSarah Deardorff Miller is Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where she is ...Read More
Sarah Deardorff Miller
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Parvati Nair
Commision MemberParvati Nair is currently on secondment from Queen Mary, University of London to work as Founding Director of the United Nations University Institute in Barcelona, Spain, which foc...Read More
Parvati Nair
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Daniel M. Naujoks
Commision MemberDaniel Naujoks is Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs and Lecturer in Law at the Columbia Law School a...Read More
Daniel M. Naujoks
Commision Member
José Antonio Ocampo
Commision MemberJosé Antonio Ocampo is director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration in the School of International and Public Affairs, Member of the Committee on Global Though...Read More
José Antonio Ocampo
Commision Member
Benedita Menezes Queiroz
Commision MemberBenedita Menezes Queiroz is an Assistant Lecturer at the Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas (ICJP), and Researcher at the Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law (CIDP).
...Read More
Benedita Menezes Queiroz
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Bianca Z. Santos
Commision MemberBianca Z. Santos joined Pangea Legal Services in March 2014 after a year of volunteering with the organization. Prior to her work at Pangea, Bianca was the Program Director for the...Read More
Bianca Z. Santos
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Peter J. Spiro
Commision MemberPeter J. Spiro holds the Charles Weiner Chair in international law. Before joining Temple’s faculty in 2006, Professor Spiro was Rusk Professor of Law at the University of Georgi...Read More
Peter J. Spiro
Commision Member
Cory Winter
SecreteriatCory Winter is the Program Manager at the Columbia University International Mobility Group (CIMG) working in the School of International and Public Affairs. At CIMG, Cory manages t...Read More
Cory Winter
Secreteriat
Colleen Thouez
Commission Member; Division Director Open Society FoundationsColleen Thouez is the division director of Welcoming and Integrated Societies at the Open Society International Migration Initiative.
Since 2015, Dr. Thouez has served as chair...Read More
Colleen Thouez
Commission Member; Division Director Open Society Foundations
Emma Borgnäs
Commision MemberEmma Borgnäs is a Data and Policy Analyst for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) and former Project Coordinator for t...Read More
Emma Borgnäs
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Justin MacDermott
Commision MemberJustin MacDermott is the Deputy Director of the Division for Migration and Asylum at Ministry of Justice of Sweden. He was the Former Adviser supporting the Special Representative ...Read More
Justin MacDermott
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Gregory Maniatis
Commision MemberGregory Maniatis is the Director of the Open Society Foundations-International Migration Initiative.
Maniatis served as senior adviser to Peter Sutherland, the UN Special Repres...Read More
Gregory Maniatis
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Joel P. Trachtman
Commision MemberJoel P. Trachtman is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Recent books include "The Future of International Law: Global ...Read More
Joel P. Trachtman
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Mats Karlsson
Commision MemberVisiting Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.
Before joining Columbia University, Kar...Read More
Mats Karlsson
Commision Member
Maggie Powers
Commision MemberMaggie Powers is an Adviser for the Welcoming and Integrated Societies Division at the Open Society Foundations, an Adviser for the Columbia International Mobility Group (CIMG) and...Read More
Maggie Powers
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