Data solutions for regular migration pathways and a balanced narrative
Jun 17, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Orkanen Building Auditoriums D138, D131, & Streaming Live Online
Description
Most migration is safe and regular. With worldwide labour shortages, industries, companies and services competitively beckon for transnational skills and talent. And yet, this reality is overshadowed by politicized and fear-driven narratives around migration. Data on regular pathways is critical to help align skills with labour demands—both in the short- and long-term—and to measure the effectiveness of policies, programmes and agreements, and monitor broader trends. It also helps to enrich the stories of migration and convey the socio-economic prosperity that migration brings to communities.
This session will explore the data priorities, opportunities and needs to facilitate regular migration pathways. Government representatives will outline the data they leverage for connecting with talent, while regional organizations will speak to managing data in the context of supporting freedom of movement agreements. IOM will also launch its new report on Good Governance of Labour Mobility Pathways – a global snapshot on the basis of MGI data.
Moderator:
- Ms. Eva Akerman Borje, Director a.i., Department for Data, Insights and Policy, IOM
Speakers:
- Mahmoud Elsayed, Political Officer, Department of Migration, Refugees, and Combating Human Trafficking, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt
- Xue Yunlong, Deputy Director, Department of Foreigners Administration, National Immigration Administration (NIA), People's Republic of China
- Katharina Bonnenfant, Head of Unit, Digitization of Consular Services; and Digital Coordinator in the Legal Department, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
- Jack Cooper, Statistician, Head of Migration Statistics, UK Home Office’
- Thomas Danso Mensah, Migration Data, Programme Officer, Directorate of Free Movement of Persons, Migration and Tourism, ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, Nigeria
