Gloria Moreno-Fontes

Gloria Moreno-Fontes Chammartin, originally from Mexico, has a Ph. D on International Studies from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva. From 1993 to 1997, she worked in the Active Labour Market Policies Branch of the Employment Department of the ILO on wages, employment status flexibility, maquiladoras and trade liberalization in Mexico. In November 1997, she joined ILO's Labour Migration Programme (MIGRANT) and since then she has developed and managed research and technical cooperation work in the fields of migration and gender, domestic work, trafficking, links between migration and development, deskilling and recognition of skills, the informal economy, and migrants in an irregular situation, among other topics.

Ms. Moreno-Fontes Chammartin has been providing policy-advice, has been in charge of global advocacy work and training, and is in charge of technically backstopping and supervising work on labour migration in the Latin American and Caribbean region. She covered work in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from 2003 until June, 2014. She has had direct supervisory responsibilities managing a team of 7 staff (3 Professionals and 4 General staff) and a yearly budget of 320,000.- USD from 2003 to 2009. Ms. Moreno-Fontes also follows inter-agency work on global debates such as the Global Migration Group (GMG), the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), the High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development (HLD) and the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda. At the same time, she has published extensively.