World Commission on Forced Displacement
Commission and Steering Committee Members
Commission Members
- CHAIRMAN: Heinz Fischer - Former President of Austria
- Liaquat Ahamed - Financial Writer, Public and Private Sectors Investment Professional
- Kamal Ahmad - Founder, CEO Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Masood Ahmed - President, Center for Global Development, Former Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Middle East and Central Asia Department - Vincenzo Amendola - Former Undersecretary of State of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
- Kemal Dervis - Senior Fellow and Edward M. Bernstein Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
- David Donoghue - Former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations, Co-Chair, United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants 2016
- Imad Fakhoury - Former Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Jordan
- Kristalina Georgieva - CEO, The World Bank
- Silvia Giorguli - Demographer, President, College of Mexico
- Rebeca Grynspan - Secretary General of the Ibero American Conference, Former UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Tarja Halonen - Former President of Finland
- Per Heggenes - CEO of the IKEA Foundation
- Noeleen Heyzer - Former Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Former Under Secretary General of the UN
- Igor Ivanov - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
- Romina Khurshid Alam - Member of National Assembly of Pakistan
- Hannelore Kraft - former Minister-President, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Paul Martin - Former Prime Minister of Canada
- David Miliband - President and CEO, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
- Amina Mohamed - Cabinet Secretary for Education, formerly Foreign Affairs, of Kenya, Former Chair of the International Organization for Migration
- Nasser Saidi - Former Lebanese Minister of Economy and Industry and Vice Governor of the Lebanese Central Bank
- Fareed Zakaria - Journalist, Author, CNN
Steering Committee
Members
- Karen Abuzayd - Commissioner on the UN Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, former Special Adviser, UN Summit on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants and former Commissioner-General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
- Nicola Cobbold - Trustee and former CEO of Portland Trust
- Liz Collett – Founding Director, Migration Policy Institute Europe & Senior Advisor, Transatlantic Council
- Cathryn Costello – Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law, Refugee Studies Center, Oxford Department of International Development
- Kemal Derviş – Senior Fellow and Edward M. Bernstein Fellow, Global Economy and Development at The Brookings Institution, former Head of the United Nations Development Programme and Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey
- Xavier Devictor – Advisor, Fragility, Conflict & Violence Group, The World Bank
- David Donoghue - Former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations
- Christian Dustmann – Director, Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration (CReAM)
- Dr. Noha El-Mikawy – Director MENA, Ford Foundation
- Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen – Research Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Adjunct Professor of Law, Aarhus University
- Elizabeth Hagen – Executive Director, The Vienna Institute for Economic Studies
- Dr. James Kisia - Director, Research Capacity Strengthening, African Population and Health Research Centre
- Michele Klein-Solomon – Director of the Migration Policy and Research Department at the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Wolfgang Lutz - Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Ewen Macleod – Head of Policy Development and Evaluation Service, UNHCR
- Kathleen Newland – Co-Founder, Migration Policy Institute
- Dilip Ratha – World Bank Chief Economist & Head of KNOMAD project
- Rubén Rumbaut – Distinguished Professor School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
- Dr. Abid Suleri - Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute; Member National Economic Advisory Council
- Thomas Thomsen – Head of Humanitarian Team, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
- Professor John Weeks – Distinguished Professor of Geography Emeritus, Director of the International Population Center and Demographer, San Diego State University
- Leah Zamore – Senior Policy Analyst, Refugee Policy, Humanitarian Response and Conflict Prevention, Center on International Cooperation, NYU
Co-Chairs
- Joel Bell - Chairman, Chumir Foundation
- Sara Pantuliano - Managing Director, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
- Alex Aleinikoff – Director, The Zolberg Institute on Migration & Mobility at The New School; Former United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva
- Professor Roger Zetter – Professor Emeritus in Refugee Studies and former Director of Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Related Pages
In 2022
108.4 Million
were forcibly displaced
Source: UNHCR (2022) Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2022
76%
of those displaced are in the
Developing World
Source: UNHCR (2022) Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2022
62.5 Million
are Internally Displaced
due to conflict, violence and persecution
Source: UNHCR (2022) Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2022
52%
of displaced people came from
Syria (6.5m)
Ukraine (5.7m)
and Afghanistan (5.7m)
Source: UNHCR (2022) Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2022