Seminar on Mainstreaming
Migration into Development Planning
Part of the 2011 Migration and Development Series, jointly organized
by UNITAR, IOM, UNFPA and the MacArthur Foundation
Programme Schedule
28 November 2011, Conference room 6 (NLB), United Nations Headquarters, New York
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Carlos D. Sorreta is the Ambassador and Deputy
Permanent Representative of Philippine Permanent
Mission to the United Nations in New York. Mr.
Sorreta is a career diplomat with the rank of Chief
of Mission II. He was previously Deputy Chief of
Mission of the Philippine Embassy in Washington.
In May 2010, Mr. Sorreta Chaired the Special
Committee on the Charter of the United Nations
and on the Strengthening of the Role of the
Organization. At the 65th United Nations General
Assembly, Mr. Sorreta was Vice-Chairman of the
First Committee (Disarmament and International
Security). In the Home Office, Mr. Sorreta was
Special Assistant for Policy to four Secretaries of
Foreign Affairs and also served as Special Assistant
for Foreign Affairs of President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo. Mr. Sorreta also headed the following
offices: International Treaties, Territorial Issues, the
Southeast Asia Division and the United States
Division. He negotiated several multilateral and
bilateral treaties for the Philippines. He twice
appeared as Counsel for the Philippines before the
International Court of Justice. At the Philippine
Mission to the United Nations in New York, he was
Legal Adviser and Representative for Disarmament
and International Security. For his work in foreign
policy, he has been bestowed the Presidential
Order of Mabini, with the rank of Dakilang Kasugo.
Mr. Sorreta is a graduate of the UP College of Law
and a member of the Philippine Bar. At UP, he was
on the Editorial Board of the Philippine Law Journal
and the Philippine Journal of International Law. He
was Captain of Philippine Team to the Jessup
International Law Moot Court Competition, and
graduate assistant to several of his professors and
as well as to several Supreme Court Justices. He has
taken up specialized graduate studies in New York,
Washington DC, Honolulu, Singapore and Malaysia.
He has also been a member of the faculties of the
De La Salle University, University of Manila and the
Assumption College, where he taught international
law and international relations. He is the editor of a
recently published book on Philippine-US relations.
Yvonne Lodico is Head of Unitar's New York Office.
Prior to joining UNITAR, she served as special
advisor to the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
for nearly four years. In Timor, Ms. Lodico
conceptualized and developed a programme called
the Democratic Governance Forum. She also
served as the focal point for women. Along with
serving in Timor-Leste, Ms. Lodico served on three
other missions in sub-Saharan Africa in political,
legal and humanitarian capacities as well as served
in the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs. She was
also a lecturer of international human rights
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law. Her education background includes degrees in
law, politics and religion, from NYU, Columbia and
Yale, where she was a McFaddin Scholar focusing
on reconciliation studies. Most recently, she was
selected by United States Institute for Peace (USIP)
international programme for preventive diplomacy,
where she will represent the UN.
Ms. Michele Klein Solomon is the Permanent
Observer of the International Organization for
Migration (IOM) to the United Nations. Prior to
assuming her current function in August 2010,
she was the Director of the Migration Policy and
Research Department of IOM. In that capacity,
she was instrumental in building the
Organization’s migration policy expertise and
profile, including by helping to create and leading
the IOM International Dialogue on Migration,
and serving as a key member of the secretariat to
and producing the Berne Initiative’s International
Agenda on Migration Management.
She regularly provides advice and guidance to
governments in all regions of the world as well as
to regional, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations on a wide range of
migration policy matters. Ms. Klein Solomon
received her Juris Doctor and Masters of Science
in Foreign Service (MSFS) degrees, cum laude,
from the Georgetown University Law Center and
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service,
in 1988, with honors including the Landegger
Honors Certificate in International Business
Diplomacy. She served as the topics editor for
the journal Law and Policy in International
Business. Prior to joining IOM in 2000, Ms. Klein
Solomon served as an Attorney Adviser with the
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal
Adviser, from 1989 - 2000. She served in a
number of offices (UN Affairs, Human Rights and
Refugees, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, and
management) during her tenure with the State
Department. Of particular relevance to her work
with IOM, Ms. Klein Solomon served as the
Department's principal refugee and migration
lawyer from 1991 - 1996.
Ms. Klein Solomon has published on a range of
migration-related issues, including migration and
asylum, migration and trade, and migration and
development.
Ms. Daniela Simioni is an architect who early
specialised in urban and regional planning at the
University of Architecture in Venice Italy. She has
worked in several development projects at local
and regional level, particularly in Latin America and
the Caribbean, focused on poverty reduction, slums
upgrading and sustainable development.
She
joined UN in 1996, first at the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC) as responsible of the area of human
settlements in the Division of Sustainable
Development. Now she works in the office of the
Regional Commissions in New York, as the focal
point for social related issues, including poverty,
employment, ageing, disabilities, youth, gender
issue and migration. The Regional Commissions
have joined the Global Migration Group in 2007.
Since then she has been the focal point at working
level for the work of the regional commissions in
the GMG.
Lars Johan Lönnback joined IOM in 2010 and is
currently the Senior Migration Policy Advisor to the
Director of International Cooperation and
Partnerships at the International Organization for
Migration’s headquarters in Geneva. Mr Lönnback
inter alia focuses on IOM’s relations with the
United Nations System and the Organisation’s
Governing Bodies.
Between 1996 and 2010, Lars Lönnback was
employed in the Swedish Foreign Service where he
served most recently in Brussels as Counsellor to
the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the
European Union and, prior to that, as Detached
National Expert in the European Commission.
Previously, he was Political Officer in the Office of
the High Representative for the Dayton Peace
Accords based in Sarajevo.
Mr Lönnback received his LLM in International Law
from the University of Stockholm.
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Ms. Sarah Rosengärtner is a Migration and
Development Expert with the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), Bureau for
Development Policy in New York. She currently
coordinates a pilot project on mainstreaming
migration into national development strategies and
supports the inter-agency Global Migration Group
(GMG) working group on this topic. In 2010, Sarah
served as Migration and Development Adviser for
the EC-UN Joint Migration and Development
Initiative (JMDI) in Brussels and coordinated
UNDP’s chairmanship of the GMG. Prior to joining
UNDP, Sarah worked for four years in the New York
Office of the United Nations Institute for Training
and Research (UNITAR), developing, organizing and
facilitating policy seminars and courses for
permanent missions and UN staff on topics related
to international migration and development;
peace, security and justice; UN reform; and
international trade. Sarah was in charge of the
Migration and Development Series, a collaboration
between UNITAR, IOM, UNFPA and the MacArthur
Foundation from 2006 to 2009, and coordinated
UNITAR’s Chairmanship of the GMG during the
second half of 2009. Sarah holds a Masters degree
in political science from the Freie Universität in
Berlin and Sciences Po in Paris.
Ms. Barbara Affolter Gómez entered the Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation 10 years
ago. She was first Deputy Head of Communication
and moved then to the Governance Division, where
she was working on the introduction of the Human
Rights Based Approach in the Agency. Since 2008
she is a Policy Advisor for migration and
development and directing the thematic migration
and development network of the agency. She is
specialized in Labour Migration and is currently
elaborating a program strategy on Decent Work for
labour migrants in the Middle East.
She is a former journalist who worked as a foreign
editor for the Swiss National Radio. She was also a
delegate of the International Red Cross in Central
and South America and worked on labour rights for
a Swiss Trade Union. She studied history at the
University of Basel in Switzerland.
Ms. Toni-Shae James Freckleton is the Acting
Manager of the Population & Health Unit at the
Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ). She holds a
BSc. in Sociology and Demography and a Masters
degree in Sociology with specialization in the field
of Demography. Mrs. Freckleton’s professional
input to national development at the PIOJ spans
seven years and this involves having a leadership
role in the monitoring and coordination of national
policies and programmes including: Vision 2030
Jamaica – National Development Plan, specifically
in the areas of Population and Culture, Creative
Industries and Values; International Migration and
Development ; Modernization Programme of the
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System in
Jamaica; The National Identification System; and
National Population Policy and Plan of Action on
Population and Development, 2005-2015.
Toni-Shae provides general oversight to the Project
Unit established for the development of Jamaica’s
National Policy and Plan of Action on International
Migration and Development. She has also made
several presentations at the GFMD Regional
Meetings this year and the IOM Global Meeting of
Chairs and Secretariats of Regional Consultative
Processes on Migration (RCPs).
Ms. Daniela Morari is the Deputy Head of Unit,
Political Cooperation with the EU, Department for
European Integration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and European Integration of the Republic of
Moldova. In 2007 - 2010, she was counselor within
the Moldovan Mission to the EU dealing with
Justice and Home Affairs and political cooperation
issues. In 2004 - 2007, she served in the
Department for European Integration in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European
Integration of the Republic of Moldova.
Daniela Morari takes part in the coordination
process of the Justice and Home Affairs and
Political Cooperation areas of the European
Integration process of the Republic of Moldova and
EU-Moldova dialogue. She has been part of the
preparation and negotiation process, as well
monitoring and coordination process of
implementation of the EU-Moldova Mobility
Partnership (including Extended Migration Profile).
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