Nicholas Bishop is IOM’s Head of Climate Resilience and Security. His role is focused on inter-agency coordination, IOM country office technical support inclusive of programme design and implementation, and policy engagement to over 80 countries. He is IOM’s institutional focal point for the Early Warnings for All Initiative and the Santiago Network on Loss and Damage, reflecting his involvement in the organization's broader climate change adaptation and loss and damage portfolio. Nick’s extensive experience in humanitarian emergency response and DRR spans numerous crises, including deployments as Emergency Coordinator for the Ukraine crisis, and as Emergency Response Lead in Afghanistan. He has worked with IOM in Thailand, Sierra Leone, the Western Balkans, Turkey, Lebanon, Mozambique, and Libya, consistently focusing on humanitarian emergency response coordination, contingency planning, intervention strategies, and programming implementation.Nicholas has written extensively for a variety of online publications on migration and current affairs. He holds an LLB in Law and an M.A. in International Relations from Osaka University. 

Session: 

• The policy dimensions of cross-boundary human mobility

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