Briefing on Migration Data for Humanitarian Response and Development
Tuesday, 5 April, 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Conference Room 8, UNHQ
Panelist Biographies
Jon Clifton
Managing Director, Global Analytics
Jon Clifton is Managing Director of Gallup’s Global Analytics and a member of the company’s Executive Committee. He is responsible for the company’s global government work and the Gallup World Poll, an ongoing study conducted in more than 160 countries. He is also a member of the Public Release Committee, the governance board that oversees and maintains Gallup’s public release standards for data, research and methodology. Jon is a nonresident Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, and he serves on the board of directors of the Meridian International Center and of StreetWise Partners. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from the University of Michigan and a juris doctorate in international law from the University of Nebraska. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.
I-Sah Hsieh
Global Manager, International Development, SAS Institute, Inc.
I-Sah Hsieh is an advisor to the international development community where he uses Advanced Analytics and innovative technologies to improve responses to disasters and other global challenges. I-Sah holds an engineering degree from Cornell University and has also implemented transformational technologies across highly regulated industries like healthcare, defense, and telecommunications.
Susanne Melde
Research and Policy Officer, Migration & Environment Global Migration Data Analysis Centre, International Organization for Migration
Susanne Melde is the Research and Policy Officer on Migration and the Environment at the newly established Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Berlin, Germany. Ms. Melde has more than 8 years of experience in working on migration policy and research at IOM. From 2010 to 2013 she was in charge of the research unit of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Observatory on Migration in Brussels, Belgium. Among many migration publications, she recently co-edited a publication on South-South migration, published by Springer. Since January 2014, she is managing a research project on migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental and climate change in 6 pilot countries and is based in Berlin since August 2015.
Nuno Nunes
Global Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster Coordinator, International Organization for Migration
Nuno Nunes acts as Global Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster Coordinator at the International Organization for Migration (IOM). With twelve years of experience in the humanitarian field, his work has encompassed camp management and emergency operation coordination in 12 countries, including DRC, Haiti, Mali, Pakistan, Philippines, Syria, and South Sudan. Nuno has been one of the driving forces behind the institutionalization of IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) as an information management tool to collect, analyze and disseminate data on the needs and movements of displaced populations for better targeted humanitarian responses. Working closely with private sector partners to strengthen information management tools and camp management processes, Nuno seeks to enhance efficiency, effectiveness and predictability of CCCM interventions. He is also engaged in the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) Transformation Through Innovation working group. Nuno holds a Masters in Agricultural Engineering and has a technical background in GIS, mapping, database management and data visualization.
Francesca Perucci
Assistant Director, Statistics Division, UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs
Francesca Perucci is Assistant Director of the UN Statistics Division where she oversees the work on SDGs. Between 2002 and 2012, she was responsible for the programme on the global monitoring of the MDGs. For a number of years, she also managed the capacity development programme of the Statistics Division to strengthen statistical systems in countries. Ms. Perucci initiated her career in the UN as a technical adviser on gender and social statistics. Since then, in different positions within the UN system, she has focused on developing and promoting the use of statistics and indicators to monitor progress in development and to inform policies.
Between 2012 and 2014, she was assistant Director of the UN Population Division where her work focused on demographic analysis and the substantive support to the intergovernmental process on population and development. She has authored a number of articles on social and gender statistics, two issues of the UN publication The World’s Women, in 1995 and 2000, and several statistical manuals on gender statistics and social statistics. She was the lead author of the MDG Report from 2005 to 2012.
Robert Powell
Global Risk Briefing Director, Middle East and Africa Regional Manager, Economist Intelligence Unit
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Robert previously worked at the Press Association. Robert Powell joined The Economist Intelligence Unit's Country Analysis department in 2001. He manages our risk briefing model, which covers 180 countries across 66 parameters of operational risk. In this role, Robert conducts briefings on emerging economic, societal, and business challenges for governmental and private-sector clients. Besides his global duties, he is responsible for reports on the Middle East and Africa. Robert plays an important role in presenting the EIU's views on the global economy to clients and industry leaders, and is a regular participant on the conference circuit. He maintains active contacts with the media, including frequent interviews for the BBC, CNBC, CNN and NPR. He speaks English and Arabic.
Nathaniel A. Raymond
Director, Signal Program on Human Security and Technology, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Nathaniel A. Raymond is Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.I. Chan School of Public Health. He was formerly Director of Operations of the Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which was a co-recipient of the 2012 US Geospatial Foundation Industry Intelligence Achievement Award. Raymond was previously Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights and served in a variety of roles at Oxfam America, including Communications Advisor for Humanitarian Response and Interim Coordinator for Tsunami Communications for Oxfam International. He has served in the field in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, the Gulf Coast, Jordan, and elsewhere. He is a 2013 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow and a 2010 Rockwood Leadership Institute National Security and Human Rights Reform Fellow. Raymond is a co-winner of the 2013 USAID and Humanity United Tech Challenge for Mass Atrocity Prevention. He has co-written four major peer-reviewed articles on the use of information communication technologies in humanitarian response and human rights work.
Sarah Telford
Senior Programme Officer, Humanitarian Data Exchange, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Sarah Telford is the manager of the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), OCHA's open platform for sharing data from humanitarian partners around the world. Sarah has worked with OCHA for nine years. Before her work on data, she was focused on improving humanitarian reporting across OCHA's field offices. Prior to joining OCHA, Sarah worked for the UK’s Department for International Development in the Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department in London. She has also worked with UNICEF and the UN in Afghanistan and worked with the International Medical Corps in Iraq. She began her career with the UN as a press officer with the Department of Public Information and shortly after joined the US Fund for UNICEF in New York to work on emergency communications. Sarah has a Masters degree in East Asia Studies from Columbia University and a Bachelors degree in English Literature from Hofstra University in New York.