Dina Ionesco

Dina Ionesco is the Head of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Division. In this capacity she oversees policies and programmes related to the nexus between migration, environment and climate change and coordinates IOM’s contributions to policy processes, such as the climate change negotiations and Nansen Initiative. She is the co-author of the Atlas of Environmental Migration (2016).

Dina was awarded as “Inspirational woman working to protect the environment” as part of the International Women's Day 2016, at the initiative of UNEP, the Geneva Environment Network and the Swiss Confederation.

Dina has over 18 years of international work experience. She joined IOM in 2004 and has taken up different responsibilities, working on migration policies, research, migration and development.

Prior to joining IOM, Dina worked with the OECD in Paris from 1998 to 2004 as an Administrator on local development, job creation, social capital and entrepreneurship.

Additionally, Dina worked in an international human rights non-governmental organization on Roma populations’ rights and youth in post conflict, as well as a university assistant, an independent consultant and a coach writer, in the UK, Switzerland and Denmark.

Dina holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Studies from the London School of Economics (UK), a Master’s Degree in European Studies from Sussex University (UK) and graduated from the Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris (France).

She has a dual citizenship (French and Romanian).