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Ghosh, Bimal

Bimal Ghosh has a long record of activities running concurrently between academia and international organizations. He is Emeritus Professor at Colombia’s Graduate School of Public Administration, and a Senior Fellow (global migration) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva as well as at the Institute of International Policy and Diplomacy, University of Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá. He now often also serves as a senior consultant /external collaborator to the United Nations, ILO, IOM the Council of Europe and various global commissions and conferences. He is on the Advisory Board of IOM and of several NGOS, including the Hague Process on Refugees and Migration, the Network on Migration Research on Africa, Lagos, and the Global Migration Policy Associates in Geneva. Previously a senior director in the United Nations system, he held positions, among others, as coordinator of UN interagency secretariat for development co-operation, UNDP resident director, and ILO director of technical cooperation and development.He has served as leader of a UNDP/World Bank mission on foreign direct investment in Asia; as director of a global project on migration management (NIROMP), as a member of the UNHRC intergovernmental group of experts on migrants human rights (1998-99).