Marie McAuliffe

Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Policy Research Division in IOM Geneva. Marie has worked in international migration for 17 years as a practitioner, program manager, senior official, analyst, researcher and more recently in academia at the Australian National University where she has been undertaking her doctoral research. Marie has led research, analysis and policy teams in government and has consulted to the IOM, the ILO as well as in the private sector, including in South Korea, Russia, Central Asia and Turkey. For three years (2012–2014) Marie directed the Australian irregular migration research program, where she developed research partnerships with academic institutions, policy think-tanks and specialist private sector researchers.

Marie is a member of the International Geneva Committee of the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) in Geneva. She is a visiting fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a visiting scholar at the Population Institute at Hacettepe University in Ankara. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and for policy organizations on migrant smuggling, asylum seekers, refugees and protection in South-East Asia. She has been a regular contributor to policy think-tanks, such as the Lowy Institute for International Policy and the ANU’s Policy Forum. She is co-editor of a new IOM report on migrant smuggling data and research (with Frank Laczko), and is currently co-editing a book on irregular migration (with Khalid Koser) due to be published in 2017 by ANU Press. Marie guest edited the latest issue of IOM’s Migration Policy Practice on Afghan displacement.