- Held various positions since starting working at ICMPD in 2001, including Senior Programme Manager, Head of the Secretariat of the Mediterranean Transit Migration Dialogue and Team Leader of the EUROMED Migration III.
- Worked at ICMPD Headquarters in Vienna from 2001 until 2012, ICMPD Brussels Mission from 2012 until 2015, and moved to Malta in 2016 where he assumed the position of Regional Coordinator and Head of the ICMPD Regional Coordination Office for the Mediterranean. In this role, he oversees ICMPD Action in the Mediterranean region, including regional programmes such as EUROMED Migration IV, Mediterranean City-to-City Migration, the Border Management Programme for the Maghreb, the Euro-Mediterranean Migration Media Award, the North African Migration Academic Network, and staff in various offices in the region e.g. Amman, Beirut and Tunis.
- Developed a significant experience over the course of his career particularly focused on migration cooperation between Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
- Managed a portfolio of large initiatives of multilateral, multi-thematic and complex nature.
- Developed a wide range of expertise covering:
- migration dialogue facilitation;
- migration governance and inter-institutional cooperation and coordination, and notably conceptualised the development of the migration governance process and migration governance tool;
- information sharing mechanisms and migration knowledge management, and notably created the Interactive Map on Migration (imap) platform;
- Specific themes such as irregular and mixed migration, migration and development, urban governance of migration, and narrative and communication on migration.
- French national. Married. Two children.
First Name:
Julien
Designation:
Regional Coordinator for the Mediterranean at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).
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