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Staff
| Ms. de Pascual-Teresa |
Chief |
Working Languages
English, French, Spanish
Contact details:
Tel: +41 22 799 62 26
Fax: +41 22 799 88 36
E-mail: depascual@ilo.org
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Ms. de Pascual-Teresa is the Chief of the ILO International Migration Branch. A native of Spain, she holds a Diploma of Law from Salamanca University and a Masters Degree on Human Rights and the European Union from the Pontifical University in Salamanca.
Ms. de Pascual-Teresa's professional career has focussed on the fields of law, international relations, and international migration in different contexts. Her first engagement was as legal adviser to migrant associations in Madrid, giving legal advice, representing migrants in juridical proceedings and providing support to legal and policy reforms affecting migrants. She was appointed in 1996 as Confederal Secretary for International Relations at the General Workers Union (UGT) of Spain, where she was responsible for issues including European Union enlargement and free movement of workers. In 2002-03, she served as Deputy Director of the national Trade Union Institute for Development Cooperation (ISCOD), in charge of technical cooperation programmes on international migration. In 2004, she was appointed as senior staff to the Minister of Labour of Spain, later becoming Deputy Director of the Minister's Cabinet. In 2009, she was appointed to the Spanish Prime Minister's Office, with responsibility for national participation in the Alliance of Civilizations.
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| Ms. Christiane Kuptsch |
Senior Specialist in Migration Policy |
Working Languages
English, French, German and passive Spanish
Contact details:
Tel: +41 22 799 86 96
Fax: +41 22 799 88 36
E-mail: kuptsch@ilo.org
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Ms. Christiane Kuptsch has been with the International Migration Branch since June 2008, as Senior Specialist in Migration Policy. Before, she held the position of Senior Research Officer at the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies where she headed the work on labour migration since 2003 and also acted as Coordinator of Special Events since 2006. She joined the ILO in 1992, in the then Migration and Population Branch; worked on social protection issues - with the ILO-linked International Social Security Association - from 1995 to 2001; and was in charge of educational activities at the International Institute for Labour Studies for two years before going back to migration-related work.
She is a political scientist (University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland), with a background in law (University of Hamburg, Germany). Her publications include works on social protection and a-typical forms of work; disability policies; social security privatization; the protection of migrant workers in irregular situations; the migration of students and trainees; and temporary foreign workers programmes. Her migration-related books are about migration policy ("Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-first Century", co-authored with Philip L. Martin and Manolo I. Abella, 2006, Yale University Press); migrant recruitment agents ["Merchants of Labour" -
(pdf 1,03 MB), edited volume, 2006, IILS/ILO], the increasing competition for highly skilled migrants ["Competing for Global Talent" - (pdf 1,69 MB), edited volume, with Pang Eng Fong, 2006, IILS/ILO] and the ["The internationalization of labour markets" -
(pdf 1,943 KB), edited volume, 2010, IILS/ILO].
Work areas: Migration policy; temporary labour migration; internationalization of labour markets;
global production, migration and social welfare.
Focal point: Research
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| Mr. Ryszard Cholewinski |
Senior Policy Specialist |
Working Languages
English, Polish, French (working knowledge)
Contact details:
Tel: +41 22 799 87 44
Fax: +41 22 799 88 36
E-mail: cholewinski@ilo.org
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Mr. Ryszard Cholewinski joined the International Migration Branch in September 2010. Prior to coming to the ILO, he was a Senior Migration Policy and Research Specialist in the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva and Reader in Law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.
He has written widely on the human rights of migrants, labour migration, and various aspects of European Union law and policy relating to migration. In particular, he is the author of "Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law: Their Protection in Countries of Employment (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997) and two publications for the Council of Europe
["The Legal Status of Migrants Admitted for EmploymentMerchants of Labour" (2004) -
(pdf 760 KB)], and ["Irregular Migrants: Access to Minimum Social Rights" (2005) - (pdf 544 KB)] While at IOM, he was co-editor-in-chief of "World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Exonomy" and also co-authored two editions of the "Handbook on Establishing Effective Labour Migration Policies in Countries of Origin and Destination" (2006, 2007), a joint publication of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), IOM and ILO.
He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa, a Master in Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Leicester.
Work areas: Migration policy; labour migration; human and labour rights of migrants; EU law and policy on migration.
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| Ms. Maria Gallotti |
Migration Policy Specialist |
Working Languages
English, Spanish and French
Contact details:
Tel: +32 2 736 59 42
Fax: +32 2 735 48 25
E-mail: gallotti@ilo.org
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Ms. Maria Gallotti has first worked for the ILO in 2000 as part of the Gender Promotion Programme (GENPROM) of the Employment Sector where she was in charge, among other things, of a technical cooperation project in the area of gender, employment and migration, focussing in particular on migrant domestic workers. She was affiliated with the International Migration Branch in 2006 to work as a Migration Officer with planning and monitoring responsibilities on technical cooperation projects in particular in the field of integration, non discrimination and gender. From 2007 she collaborated with the ILO Office in Bangkok on a number of activities in the area of migration and trafficking and, in particular, she was involved in developing and delivering training on recruitment practices as well as in managing a technical cooperation project on return and reintegration.
Since April 2010 she is serving as a Migration Policy Specialist of the International Migration Branch. She is currently based in Brussels, in charge of providing technical backstopping to projects as well as to act as one of MIGRANT’s focal points on European related issues.
She holds a European Master degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation) and she has a political science background (University of Pavia, Italy).
Work areas: Gender and migration, including domestic work, return and reintegration, recruitment practices.
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| Ms. Gloria Moreno Fontes Chammartin |
Senior Labour Migration Specialist |
Working Languages
English, French, Spanish and basic knowledge of Italian
Contact details:
Tel: +41 22 799 78 54
Fax: +41 22 799 88 36
E-mail: mfontes@ilo.org
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Ms. Gloria Moreno Fontes Chammartin has worked for the ILO Headquarters since 1993. In November 1997, she joined ILO's International Labour Migration Branch and has the responsibility for developing and managing research and technical cooperation in the fields of migrant women domestic workers, productive use of remittances, trafficking in migrant women and gender in migration. Her work includes research and activities on abusive and exploitative conditions of migrant workers. She is also guiding the effort to mainstream gender throughout MIGRANT's work. Previously, she worked for four years in the Active Labour Market Policies Branch of the Employment Department of the ILO on issues of wages, employment status flexibility, maquiladoras and trade liberalization in Mexico.
Work areas: Trafficking; Domestic Workers; Remittances; Gender and Migration.
Focal point: Latin America, Gender Bureau
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| Ms. Kristine Alsvik |
Technical Officer International Migration |
Working Languages
English, French (working knowledge) and the Scandinavian languages
Contact details:
Tel: +41 22 799 87 32
Fax: +41 22 799 88 36
E-mail: alsvik@ilo.org
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Ms. Kristine Alsvik has been working as a migration officer with the International Migration Branch since February 2009, prior to which she worked two years as an associate expert at the ILO Regional Office for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She works primarily on issues related to programming and planning of the work of MIGRANT, technical backstopping of projects in the field and has in particular worked on issues related to migration and development, mainstreaming of migration into development planning, and support to development of national labour migration policies.
Before joining the ILO she worked as a programme officer on international development cooperation for a Norwegian governmental organization.
She holds an M.Phil degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo. Her M.Phil thesis was based on extensive field work in Nepal, and the thesis focused on issues related to local development and linkages to international labor migration.
Work areas: Migration and development, migration policy, labour migration issues in Africa.
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| Ms. Samia Kazi Aoul - Chaillou |
Technical Officer International Migration |
Working Languages
French, English and basic knowledge of Spanish
Contact details:
Tel: +41 22 799 71 82
Fax: +41 22 799 88 36
E-mail: kaziaoul@ilo.org
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Ms. Samia Kazi Aoul - Chaillou is a Social Security and International Migration Officer in charge of the implementation of a new project financed by the German government entitled Extending social security coverage to African migrant workers (MIGSEC).
She first joined the ILO in 2004 as an Associate Expert in Social Protection in Algiers' Office. As a Migration focal point she was involved in the implementation of a project financed by the European Union entitled Labour Migration for Integration and Development in Africa. In 2006-2007, she worked in Algeria as a project coordinator for CISP, an Italian NGO, on an AENEAS project. She was in charge of the coordination of research activities on the profile of undocumented migrants in Africa. Previously she worked in India as a program coordinator for PlaNet Finance and as a researcher for the Centre of Human Science (Delhi). Also, she worked two years as a researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
She graduated from the University of Panthéon Sorbonne in Economics and Development and from the University du Québec at Montréal in Political Science, International Relations and Cooperation.
Work areas: Social protection of migrant workers, Irregular migration, Labour migration issues in Africa.
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| Ms. Olga Correa Pinillos |
Migration Technical Officer |
Working Languages
Spanish, French, English
Contact details:
Tel: +41 22 799 79 36
Fax: +41 22 799 88 36
E-mail: correa@ilo.org
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Ms. Olga Correa Pinillos is a Technical Officer on International Migration working at the ILO since 2008. Ms. Correa works on project design, implementation and backstopping vairous technical cooperation projects being implemented in Latin-America, also collaborates with the thematic window on Yout, Employment and Migration (YEM) of the Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund (MDGF). In addition, she has contributed to the International Migration Programme by analysing data for the programme's development and research studies, drafting component fo reports and ILO publications and facilitating module traiing to ILO's constituents.
Before working at the ILO, Ms. Correa coordinated a unit on educational cooperation in Colombia (Centro Colombo Americano) and assisted a Latin-American - Catalonian centre of cultural cooperation for development in Spain (Casa América Catalunya). She graduated from the Universidad Externado de Colombia n Communications and Journalism; and holds a Master in International Relations from the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internationals (IBEI) and a post graduate diploma in Diversity Management: Citizenship and immigration from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva focussing on the subject of social dialogue and migration.
Work areas: Circular and temporary migration schemes; Social dialogue and migration; Gender and migration: Migration and media, Latin America.
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| Ms. Min Ji Kim |
Associate Expert International Migration |
Working Languages
English, French, Korean, intermediate German, basic Spanish
Contact details:
Tel: +41 22 799 62 76
Fax: +41 22 799 88 36
E-mail: kim@ilo.org
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Ms. Min Ji Kim has been with the International Labour Migration Branch at the ILO, Geneva since March 2011. She provides technical support and knowledge-sharing assistance to the MIGRANT team at headquarters on temporary and circular migration schemes, youth and labour migration, and labour migration policies in the Asia-Pacific region. She also works on backstopping labour migration activities in the Asian region.
Ms. Kim graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts, USA with a degree in government and French studies. She holds a MA in Philosophy of Law from the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris and was a research fellow at the Ecole normale supérieure. Her MA thesis was written on the question of nationality for France's second-generation immigrants from the viewpoint of legal theory.
Work areas: Circular and temporary migration, youth labour mobility, labour migratin issues in Asia-Pacific.
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