Manfred Profazi

Manfred Profazi is the Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Ukraine since January 2010.

Biography

Before his current assignment, Mr. Profazi served as IOM’s Executive officer in Jakarta, Indonesia. Prior to that, he worked as Head of IOM’s Earthquake Response Operation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia after having served as the Executive Officer and Head of Office a.i. of IOM’s Tsunami Response Operation in Aceh, Indonesia.

Previous to that, Mr. Profazi worked for 3 years as a Programme Manager for IOM in Kabul, Afghanistan. Additional short-term assignments for the organization included Colombo, Sri Lanka and IOM's Iraq mission, located in Amman, Jordan.

Prior to that, he has been the Head of Office and Operations Coordinator of IOM’s Liaison Office in Berlin, Germany. He started his career with IOM as a consultant and later research assistant at the IOM Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Prior to joining IOM in 1997, Mr. Profazi worked as a consultant at the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung, DIW) in Berlin, Germany and at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Vienna, Austria.

A German National, he received his Masters’ Degree in Political Science, with an emphasis on Migration and International Relations at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has conducted extensive research on international labour migration, migration potentials, migration history and theories.

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