Marie McAuliffe is the head of the migration policy research division in the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva, Switzerland. She is a senior 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. Marie is on the Editorial Board of the journal International Migration, and also serves on the MIT Technology Review Global Panel, IUSSP’s international migration panel, the World Economic Forum Expert Network (Migration), and the International Advisory Board of the CERC in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University (Toronto).

Marie has published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration. She edited IOM’s flagship World Migration Report 2020 (with Prof Binod Khadria) and World Migration Report 2018 (with Prof Martin Ruhs). Recent book chapters include ‘on the margins: migrant smuggling in the context of development’ (Routledge), ‘the nexus between forced and irregular migration: insights from demography’ (Springer) and ‘regulating international migration in an era of increasing interconnectedness’ (with Alexandra Goossens) (Edward Elgar). She is currently editing the Edward Elgar Handbook on Migration and Technology.

For three years (2012–2014), Marie directed the $6.5 million Australian irregular migration research program, from which stems an ANU Press book on irregular migration that she edited with Prof Khalid Koser. In late 2014, she was awarded a Sir Roland Wilson scholarship to complete her doctoral research at ANU’s School of Demography, which was approved in late 2017. She is the 2018 recipient of the Charles Price Prize in Demography for outstanding doctoral research in migration studies.

Prior to joining IOM in mid-2016, Marie led research, analysis and policy teams in government and consulted to IOM, ILO as well as in the private sector, including in South Korea, Russia, Central Asia and Turkey. She has been regularly called upon to advise Ministers, senior officials and CEOs on migration and displacement, including former UN Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, in his capacity as Chair of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State.