Advisory Group
IDMC’s Advisory Group assembles a body of experience and expertise which provides invaluable counsel on the organisation’s strategic vision and direction. It is comprised of sector experts, and representatives of IDMC’s main partners, particularly among countries and UN agencies dealing with the issue of internal displacement. The Group held its first meeting in September 2019.
Chair
Samuel Tumiwa
Advisor, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department & Chief of Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Members
Abiodun Richards Adejola
Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva, Switzerland
Emad Adly
Founder and General Coordinator, Arab Network for Environment and Development (RAED)
Paula Gaviria Betancur
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
Axel Bisschop
Principal Advisor on Internal Displacement, UNHCR
Negash Kebret Botora
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland
Angelita Caredda
Director, Middle East Regional Office, NRC
Joel R. Charny
Advisor and Mentor in the International Humanitarian Sector
Peter de Clercq
Visiting Professor at the School of Governance in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Luke Daunivalu
Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva
Sebastian von Einsiedel
Senior Advisor on Internally Displaced Persons, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Walter Kälin
Professor Emeritus of international and constitutional law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern and currently Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement
Tasneem Siddiqui
Chairperson of the Department of Political Science, University of Dhaka, and Founding Chair of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit.
Koko Warner
Director of the Global Data Institute, IOM