International Forum on Migration Statistics 2020

09.00 - 10.30

Opening plenary session

Welcoming remarks

Chair: H.E. Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, represented by H.E Ambassador Hamdi Saned Loza, Deputy Minister for African Affairs, Egypt

Speakers:

• H.E. General Khairat Barakat, President of Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Egypt
• H.E. Amira El Fadil, Commissioner for Social Affairs, African Union
• Mr. António Vitorino, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• Mr. John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division of UN DESA
• Mr. Stefano Scarpetta, Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
• H.E. Pietro Mona, Ambassador for Development, Forced Displacement and Migration, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
• Ms. Britta Behrendt, Head of Division M1 - Migration Policy, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany

11.00 - 12.00 

Keynote speech

Why do we need better migration data? What are the main knowledge gaps on migration and how can data help address those gaps?

Speaker:

• Mr. Ronald Skeldon, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex and Professor of Human Geography, Maastricht University

Introduced by Mr. Frank Laczko, Director, IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre

15.00 - 16.30

Plenary session 1

Best practices on the production and use of migration data: regional and country perspectives

Chair: Michele Klein Solomon, Director of Policy Hub, IOM

Speakers:

• Ms. Siham Mourabit, Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of Human Rights, Humanitarian and Social Affairs Division,
• African Union Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Morocco
• Mr. Diego Iturralde, Chief Director, Statistics South Africa
• Ms. Angela Me, Chair of the Committee of Chief Statisticians of the UN System and Chief of Research and Analysis
• Branch, UNODC
• Ms. Olga Chudinovskikh, Acting Head, Laboratory of Economics of Population and Demography, Moscow State University

09.00-10.30

Plenary session 2

Measuring progress on migration-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global
commitments

Chair: Ms. Francesca Grum, Chief, Social and Gender Statistics, UN DESA

Speakers:

• Mr. David Donoghue, Former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations
• Ms. Marcela Cerrutti, Professor of Sociology, Buenos Aires University, Argentina
• Mr. William Muhwava, Chief, Demographic and Social Section, African Centre for Statistics, UNECA
• Ms. Bouchra Bouziani, Head of Social Statistics Unit, High Commission for Planning, Morocco
• Mr. Stefan Andersson, Head of Unit, International Cooperation Office Sweden

14.30-16.00

Plenary session 3

Communicating Migration Data for Policy

Chair: Ms. Dessislava Choumelova, Head of Unit, Demography, Migration and Governance, Joint Research
Centre, European Commission

Speakers:

• Ms. Jay Lindop, Director, Centre for international migration, Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom
• Mr. Mark Lopez, Director of Global Migration and Demography Research, Pew Research Center
• Ms. Catherine Gicheru, Code for Africa, ICFJ Knight Fellow
• Mr. Gervais Appave, Independent Consultant

09.00-10.30

Plenary session 4

Harnessing data innovation for migration research and policymaking

Panel presentation followed by Q & A

Chair: Mr. Jean-Christophe Dumont, Head of International Migration Division in the Directorate for
Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD

Speakers:

• Mr. Gogita Todradze, Executive Director, National Statistics Office of Georgia
• Mr. Emilio Zagheni, Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
• Mr. Linus Bengtsson, Executive Director, Flowminder
• Ms. Claudia Juech, CEO, Cloudera
• Mr. Richard Benjamins, Data & AI Ambassador, Telefónica

15.30-17.00

Closing plenary session

Chair: Mr. Frank Laczko, Director, International Organization for Migration's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre

Speakers:

• Mr. Markus Schwyn, Vice Director and Head of Division for Population and Education Statistics, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
• Mr. Sabelo Mbokazi, Head of Labour, Employment and Migration Division in the Department of Social Affairs, African Union (TBC)
• Ms. Dessislava Choumelova, Head of Unit, Demography, Migration and Governance, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
• Mr. Jean-Christophe Dumont, Head of International Migration Division in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
• Mr. John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division of UN DESA
• Mr. Abdel Hameed Sharaf El Dien, Head of Population Statistics and Population Census, Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)