Email: bina.desai@idmc.ch
Phone: +41 22 552 3613
Bina oversees the organisation’s programme work, including global monitoring and reporting, the thematic research agenda, and data management and analysis. She previously worked for the German Ministry for Development, the Aga Khan Development Network, Christian Aid/DFID, and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). From 2010 to 2017 she served as UNDRR’s Policy Analyst, co-authoring and leading production of the United Nation’s Global Assessment Reports on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR).
Bina holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and MSc in Sociology and Economics, and has a strong interest in climate and disaster risk reduction, urban change and development economics. She is fluent in German and English, speaks French and basic Hindi.
The Global Monitoring and Reporting hub compiles, triangulates and validates data on internal displacement at the national, regional and global levels. It is in charge of the production of country profiles, regional reports and the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), that analyse the key trends and developments of internal displacement globally.
GLOBAL MONITORING AND REPORTING
Email: vicente.anzellini@idmc.ch
Phone: +41 22 552 36 35
Vicente leads the global and regional analysis team at IDMC and coordinates the production of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), regional reports and country profiles. He previously worked for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as researcher and policy analyst at the Risk Knowledge Section, based in Geneva. He also supported UNDRR’s Regional Office for Africa, based in Nairobi, where he conducted capacity building activities on disaster risk knowledge in over fifteen countries. He also worked in a number of countries across Central and Southern Asia, and the Pacific.
Vicente holds a BA in History and Geography from the University of Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and a MA in Human Geography and Migration Studies from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He speaks Spanish, French and English.
We are always looking to strengthen and expand our existing partnerships. If you are interested in working with us, please contact Vicente at vicente.anzellini@idmc.ch
Email: vincent.fung@idmc.ch
Vincent is a Regional Coordinator at IDMC, he focuses on monitoring and research on displacement in the Asia Pacific region. Vincent joined IDMC in 2016 as a monitoring expert for the Data and Analysis Department.
With over 15 years of experience consulting on data analysis, information management and visual communications, Vincent has been involved in issues ranging from public health, urban issues, humanitarian response, to disaster risk reduction. He has been a data and digital communications guru, trainer and designer for the UN in Switzerland, served as an information management advisor to the Humanitarian Coordinator in Timor-Leste, and also provided expertise on spatial analysis and mapping for UNOCHA in the Asia and the Pacific region. Vincent has also consulted on similar projects for UNDP in South East Asia, health NGOs in the Balkans, and local and federal governments in Canada.
Vincent is a geographer and holds a Master’s in International Urban and Environmental Management from RMIT University with a focus on behavioral studies. He speaks English, French, and Cantonese and has basic knowledge of Japanese and Thai.
Email: ivana.hajzmanova@idmc.ch
Ivana is a Regional Coordinator at IDMC, she focuses on monitoring and research on displacement in the Middle East and Africa. She joined IDMC in 2016, bringing experience in humanitarian needs and conflict analysis. Ivana has a background in humanitarian and human rights law and she previously worked on humanitarian needs analysis and assessment, and human rights advocacy with national and international NGOs.
Ivana holds Master’s degree in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po Paris and spent one semester studying international law and history of violence at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Ivana is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Czech. She can also communicate in Arabic.
Email: ricardo.faldutrasantos@idmc.ch
Ricardo Fal-Dutra Santos joined us as Regional Coordinator for Americas, Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. He has over seven years of experience leading humanitarian research and responses, notably in the area of protection, in Angola, Jordan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Palestine, South Africa and South Sudan. He has also worked in the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Oxfam, supporting country teams in wide range of countries.
Ricardo holds a master's degree in International Security from Sciences Po (Paris, France) and a BA in History from the Fluminense Federal University (Niterói, Brazil). He speaks English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
GLOBAL MONITORING AND REPORTING: Monitoring Experts
Email: thannaletchimy.housset@idmc.ch
For the last 3 years Thannaletchimy has worked as a senior consultant on labour market, trade and gender policies, primarily for the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Prior to that, she served as Head Policy Analyst (Asia-Pacific) for a private sector network, International Organisation of Employers (IOE), advocating for private sector interests on economic and labour market policies through research. She has also worked as an economist for a French think-tank based in Paris, evaluating the European Commission's policies on trade and research and development (R&D).
She graduated with a PhD in International Trade and holds a Double Masters in International Trade and Development Economics from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Originally from Singapore, she is perfectly fluent in English, French, Mandarin and Tamil.
Email: kathryn.giffin@idmc.ch
Kathryn has a master’s degree in International Relations and Political Science from the Graduate Institute Geneva, where her dissertation examined the use of rhetoric and communication strategies in foreign fighter recruitment among non-state armed groups. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Sociology with a minor in Political Science from Pittsburg State University (Kansas, USA). Prior to joining IDMC, Kathryn worked as an Information Analyst for the Asia/Pacific region at ACAPS and with the Global Communications Team at CARE International. She is originally from the United States and speaks fluent English and basic French.
Email: fanny.teppe@idmc.ch
Fanny is a Monitoring Expert for Australasia and the Pacific and a Research Associate at IDMC.
Prior to joining IDMC, Fanny has worked with the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF IEO) where she supported the evaluation of the Least Developed Countries Fund and the Institutional Policies of the GEF. Fanny has also worked with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) where she was conducting research and evaluation on decentralising climate adaptation funds. Lastly, Fanny has worked as an independent researcher and data analyst on several projects investigating the development and environment nexus such as in Papua New Guinea, Senegal and Mali.
Fanny holds a double MSc in Development Economics from the University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) and Lund University (Sweden). Fanny speaks French, English, Spanish and she is currently learning Italian.
Email: anca.paducel@idmc.ch
Anca-Hermina Paducel is a Monitoring and Research Expert (Central Africa) at IDMC. Prior to joining IDMC, she worked at the International Organization for Migration (Geneva), the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), Action on Armed Violence (Burundi), and Global Affairs Canada (Ottawa).
Anca holds a Master's and PhD degree in International Relations / Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. For her PhD dissertation, she conducted an impact evaluation of a conflict prevention project in Burundi that was implemented around the 2015 elections, assessing whether and how intergroup encounters may affect competitive victimhood. Anca also holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours in International Development from the University of Ottawa.
She speaks English, French and Romanian and has basic knowledge of German.
Email: clementine.andre@idmc.ch
Clémentine is a Monitoring Expert at IDMC. Prior to joining IDMC, she completed her Master of Science in Global Migration from University College London Department of Geography with First Class Distinction. Her Masters dissertation focused on the relationship between the precarity and uncertainty of migrant makeshift camps in Paris (France) and the mental health of asylum seekers. Clémentine also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The George Washington University in International Relations, with a double minor in Spanish Literature and Geography. She has interned with the International Organization for Migration, the European Union Delegation to the United States and volunteered with the International Rescue Committee.
Clémentine is French and has lived in Europe, Southeast Asia and the USA. She speaks fluent French and English and has advanced proficiency in Spanish. She also has elementary knowledge of Portuguese.
Email: manuela.kurkaa@idmc.ch
Manuela is a Monitoring Expert at IDMC from Bogotá, Colombia. She has a Master’s degree in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute and a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs and Political Science with a minor in Philosophy from the George Washington University. She has previously worked at the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, the International Institute for Counterterrorism, the United Nations Development Programme, the International Monetary Fund and the American Bar Association.
Manuela is a Colombian and Swedish national and speaks Spanish, English, German and Swedish fluently, has an advanced proficiency in French and an elementary proficiency in Hebrew and Arabic.
Email: alvaro.sardiza@idmc.ch
Álvaro is a Monitoring Expert at IDMC. Prior to joining the Data and Analysis team he completed a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden. In his master’s thesis he employed a mixed-methods approach and combined a cross-regional statistical analysis and a process tracing in-depth case study in order to study Social Capital and Criminality in former rebel-governed communities in Colombia.
He has previously worked with UNHCR in Colombia, where he was part of the Coordination Team of the Protection Cluster and focused on human rights protection to IDPs as well as Venezuelan refugees during the start of the humanitarian crisis. He has also worked with the Mission of Spain to the Organization of American States and has been an International Electoral Observer in Honduras.
Álvaro is from Madrid and has lived in Bogotá, Washington DC, Warsaw and Uppsala. He is a native Spanish speaker, fluent in English and is advancing his proficiency in French.
The Research hub seeks to help prevent and respond to internal displacement by producing in-depth analysis on the following themes: displacement linked with climate change and disasters, conflicts and violence, safe and sustainable returns, urban displacement and the socioeconomic impacts of displacement on different groups of affected people, such as women, children and IDPs with disabilities.
Research Hub
Email: christelle.cazabat@idmc.ch
Christelle is the Research Manager in the Programmes department. She oversees the team’s engagement on different research programmes, including on internal displacement in the context of slow-onset disasters, on urban displacement, on the linkages between internal and cross-border displacement and on the socioeconomic impacts of internal displacement.
Christelle is the research lead for the thematic series 'The ripple effect: economic impacts of internal displacement' and ‘Hidden in plain sight: the differentiated impacts of internal displacement’. She studies displacement’s repercussions on livelihoods, housing conditions, education, health, security, social life and the environment, with a particular focus on children, youth, women and other groups of affected people with specific needs.
She has been working in international development since 2007 for the French Embassies in the Dominican Republic and in Cameroon, the United Nations Population Fund’s country office in Cameroon, the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean regional office in Egypt and headquarters in Geneva, and the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme in New York.
She holds a PhD from the University of the Sorbonne (Paris) on the role of civil society in development, for which she conducted 18 months of research in Cameroon. Christelle speaks French, English and Spanish.
We are always looking to strengthen and expand our existing partnerships. If you are interested in working with us, please contact us at christelle.cazabat@idmc.ch.
Research Hub: Researchers
Email: chloe.sydney@idmc.ch
Chloe is a Researcher at IDMC, and a PhD student at Aberystwyth University. Her PhD research, closely associated to IDMC’s Thematic Series on the relationship between internal displacement and cross-border movements, focuses on the circumstances under which refugees voluntarily return to their countries of origin. She has a strong background in development research, having worked as both an Analyst and Research Officer for Forcier Consulting in Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan. In addition, she has also worked as a Reports Officer for UNICEF South Sudan, and previously as an intern for UNICEF Haiti.
Chloe holds a MSc in International Migration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics, and BSc in International Politics and the Third World. She speaks fluent English, French, and Spanish.
Chloe is the research lead for the thematic series 'The invisible majority: internal to cross-border displacement'. We are always looking to strengthen and expand our existing partnerships. If you are interested in working with us, please contact us at chloe.sydney@idmc.ch.
Email: louisa.yasukawa@idmc.ch
Louisa is a Research Associate at IDMC, supporting the team’s research on the socioeconomic impacts of internal displacement, including the thematic series 'The ripple effect: economic impacts of internal displacement' and ‘Hidden in plain sight: the differentiated impacts of internal displacement’.
Louisa holds an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. Her thesis explored the role of transitional justice in supporting durable solutions for IDPs, using Colombia as a case study. Prior to joining IDMC, Louisa was working as a qualified lawyer in Australia. She has interned in the Resettlement Unit of the UNHCR in Ecuador and completed a fellowship with Colombia-based research and advocacy organisation, Dejusticia, investigating the human rights of Venezuelan refugees and migrants.
Louisa speaks English and Spanish.
Email: pablo.ferrandez@idmc.ch
Pablo is a Research Associate at IDMC and focuses on internal displacement associated with slow-onset environmental change and disasters. He is a PhD student at Deusto University. His PhD research, closely associated to IDMC’s research on urban displacement, focuses on the role of humanitarian aid in informal settlements.
He has previously worked in Colombia with the Horizon 2020 project Preparedness and Resilience to address Urban Vulnerability (PRUV). Pablo holds a master's degree in International Humanitarian Action (NOHA+).
He is from Zaragoza and has lived in Bogotá, Bilbao, Dublin and Groningen. He is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English.
The Data Management and Analysis hub maximises and enhances the use of data collected by the IDMC monitoring experts and researchers, by producing innovative analysis and maintaining the organisation’s information management systems. The Hub provides data science services and new tools, including geospatial and temporal trend analysis, data visualisation, and displacement risk assessments, as well as transforming data into actionable information.
Data and Risk Analysis
Email: sylvain.ponserre@idmc.ch
Sylvain Ponserre is the Data and Risk Analysis Manager at IDMC.
Sylvain worked as Information Specialist for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction for almost 13 years, where he was involved in the development of global metrics for measuring the implementation of international frameworks, assessment reports, graphics production, data visualisation and data exchange. He also supported the development of software and capabilities for national accounting for disaster damage. Prior to this, he was a trainee in both the United Nations Environment Programme GRID-Geneva and the University of Geneva. He also worked in the private sector, writing environmental studies on stones extraction.
Sylvain is a geographer, holding a Masters degree “Interface Nature-Society” from the University of Lyon. He speaks fluent English and French.
Email: maria.espinosa@idmc.ch
Maria Teresa is the Information Management Coordinator at IDMC. She supports the development of analytical tools and products, as well as, data sharing initiatives. She is particularly interested in understanding the connections between climate change, disaster risk, and internal displacement.
As a part of her academic background, Maria Teresa holds a Master's in Environmental Science from the University of Geneva, as well as, professional certifications in Geomatics and Remote Sensing. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the Catholic University of Bolivia.
She speaks Spanish, English, and French.
The Pacific Response to Disaster Displacement project provides evidence on disaster displacement risk in the Pacific and supports policy development, planning and response to countries in the region. Funded by the European Union, it is a partnership between IDMC, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD).
Pacific regional project
Email: nacanieli.bolo@idmc.ch
Naca is a Project Manager in the Programmes team, focusing on climate and disaster induced displacement in the Pacific.
Naca joined in 2019 after 8 years serving with the United Nations Development Programme Pacific Office designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating environmental, climate change adaptation and risk governance projects in over 10 countries in the Pacific. He worked as an Advisor to the Chief Negotiator when Fiji presided over the UN Climate Conference in 2017- 2018 and spend a short stint with the British High Commission in Fiji to particularly strengthen regional engagement in the Pacific.
Naca holds a joint Master of Science in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management from the Central European University, University of Manchester and Lund University. He is fluent in English.
Email: vela.serukalou@idmc.ch
Vela is a project assistant at IDMC, providing administrative support to IDMC and the consortium in the implementation of the Pacific Response to Disaster Displacement (PRDD) project. Prior to joining IDMC, she worked at the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office in Fiji. She has over 15 years of experience in a similar role working with national governments, regional organisations (i.e. SPC) and UN organisations (i.e. UNDP, UNFPA and UNRC). Vela also co-founded an NGO called Rescue Mission Community Association that supported the needs of homeless youths within Suva City.
Apart from English and Fijian, she also speaks Bislama (in Vanuatu) and Pidgeon (in Solomon Islands). She is based in the IDMC Project Office in Suva.