Dina IONESCO has joined UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in October 2024, in the Division of International Protection, in an Asylum and Migration Senior International Technical Expert position, deployed by Expertise France, with functions encompassing mixed migrants and refugees’ movements policies, route-based approaches and climate change impacts.

Dina spearheaded for more than a decade International Organization for Migration (IOM) work on environment, climate change and migration, establishing the first ever specialized structure on this topic in the United Nations system and the first IOM Environmental Sustainability Program. Dina co-created in 2022 the first ever Master of arts program in Migration, Climate Change, and the Environment (MAMCE) in Webster University Geneva Campus.

Dina has more than 25 years of international work experience with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), IOM, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF&V20), European Dialogue and as an independent consultant.

Dina is passionate about art, human and emotional development, and nature.

Email ionesco@unhcr.org

Social media: linkedin.com/in/dina-ionesco