Tatiana Hadjiemmanuel has served the IOM since 2003 and joined the IOM Regional Office for the East and Horn of Africa (EHOA) in 2018 as Senior Regional Specialist on Labor Mobility and Human Development as well as BRMM program coordinator; she also served as the Senior Regional BMM Programme Coordinator in 2019. Prior to the IOM RON for EHOA she served as Head of the IOM Almaty sub-Office and Sub-regional Deputy Coordinator for IOM Central Asia (2013-2017).
In addition to EHOA and Central Asia her work with IOM includes programme implementation and migration policy in the Western Balkans, Brussels and WNIS (Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus) as well as Afghanistan. Mrs Hadjiemmanuel has also worked for the Business Advisory Council of the Stability Pact/SECI for South East Europe, the World Bank Group/ Private Sector Liaison Office, the Fulbright Foundation and as a project monitoring and evaluation consultant. She holds an MBA in International Business and International Affairs from George Washington University (1996), and a BA, summa cum laude, in Communications from University of Hartford (1994), USA. Mrs Hadjiemmanuel is a Fulbright-Salzburg Seminar scholar on “Migration, Race and Ethnicity in Europe” (2002).
She posses an interdisciplinary area of expertise which range from migration governance and policy, migration management and irregular migration, labour migration, integration and re-integration and migrants’ human rights, international development, education, small and medium size enterprise development and foreign direct investment as well as transportation logistics. During her term in Central Asia she has initiated USAID and BPRM funded research and risk analysis on Migration and Prevention of Violent Extremism ‘Migrant Vulnerabilities and Integration Needs in Central Asia, Phase I and Phase II http://www.iom.kz/en/publications and has initiated partnerships with a wide range of UN Agencies (UNDP, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNODC etc) targeting the Sustainable Development Goals and GCM migration related agenda.
In East and Horn of Africa she is working closely with government and non-government stakeholders on migration governance, policy and programming as well as on the “Nairobi Process” regional initiative on harmonization of labour migration policies and migrant workers’ rights and she is the focal point on youth, leadership and gender. Mrs Hadjiemmanuel is a national of Greece and speaks English and French and possess basic knowledge of Italian and Russian.