International migration is a defining feature of the globalized world that takes many shapes: voluntary or forced, circular or permanent, regular or irregular. Yet, national and international institutions have struggled to come up with a comprehensive approach addressing the phenomenon in its entirety. Can the UN Global Compact pave the way?

Founded by Sciences Po, the Körber Foundation, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI), the Montaigne Institute and the French Republic, represented by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Paris Peace Forum will be a forum for discussion and debate with special emphasis on civil society initiatives and for sharing experiences and innovative solutions involving all the stakeholders in governance. With these actors, the Paris Peace Forum aims to strengthen the actions of existing multilateral organizations, primarily the United Nations, and speed up implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Michael Doyle (University Professor of Columbia University, MIMC Commission Member), Mireille Delmas-Marty (Emeritus Professor of Collège de France, member of Academic Institute of France), Michelle Leighton (Director of the Migration Department, International Labor Organization), and Camilla Hagström (Deputy Head of Employment, Social Inclusion, Migration, European Commission (Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development)) will be speaking on the role of the Model International Mobility Convention as a long-term, comprehensive approach to international migration, at the Paris Peace Forum - a forum for discussion and debate with special emphasis on civil society initiatives and for sharing experiences and innovative solutions involving all the stakeholders in governance. 

Speakers

Michael DOYLE, University Professor, Columbia University; Former Director, Columbia Global Policy Initiative. He is affiliated with the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and the Law School. His research interests include international migration, international relations theory, international law, international peace-building and the United Nations. His most recent book is the Question of Intervention (Yale University Press, 2015). From 2006 to 2013, Doyle was an individual member and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund, a fund established in 2005 by the UN General Assembly to promote grass-roots democratization around the world. Doyle previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser for policy planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In the 1990’s he served as a peacekeeping adviser to High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and in 2002 prepared a report on migration governance in the UN system for SG Kofi Annan. He has received two career awards from the American Political Science Association for his scholarship and public service and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy for Political and Social Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has an A.B. and Ph.D from Harvard University and an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Warwick (UK).

Mireille DELMAS-MARTY, Emeritus Professor, Collège de France; Member, Academic Institute of France. After studying law in Paris, Mireille Delmas-Marty received her PhD (1969), then became a Professor of private law and criminal sciences (in 1970). Her teaching career, after a brief assistantship at the Law Faculty of Paris (1967-1970), has led her to teach in the universities of Lille-II (1970-1977), Paris-XI (1977-1990) and Paris-I (1990-2002). Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (1992-2002), she was elected to the Collège de France, where she occupied the Chair in Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law. In 2007, she was elected member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. In addition to her teaching, Mireille Delmas-Marty has devoted to research in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Association de Recherches Pénales Internationales she has created, then the UMR de droit comparé de Paris (University of Paris-I/CNRS) she directed from 1997 to 2002. She manages, since 1984, the Revue de science criminelle et de droit pénal comparé and participates in the editorial boards of various legal journals both national (Archives de Politique Criminelle, Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme) and international (European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, LSN International, Transnational & Comparative Criminal Law Abstracts and Journal of International Criminal Justice). Finally, Mireille Delmas-Marty has held numerous expert missions including: nearby the President of the Republic, for example, the revision of the Constitution in 1992, with the Minister of Justice for the reform of the Penal Code in 1981 and the reform of criminal procedure in 1988, and with the European Union, under the Penal Project said Corpus Juris (1996-1999) and the Supervisory Committee of European Anti-Fraud Office (1999-2005).

Michelle LEIGHTON, Director of the Migration Department, International Labor Organization. Appointed Chief of the Labour Migration Branch, at the D.1 level, with effect from 15 April 2013. Ms. Michelle Leighton received her LL.M degree from the London school of Economics and Political Science, London, England, her J.D. from Golden Gate University Law School with honors, and B.A. from the University of California at Davis. Leighton has taught on many law faculties in Asia, Europe and the United States. She has served as an adviser and consultant to international institutions, government, and non-profit organizations since 1992. Ms Leighton coordinated various research projects with academics, government agencies and local experts on migration, including in the Americas, Africa, Central Europe and Central Asia. Most recently, Ms. Leighton co-founded and was Deputy Director of the American University of Central Asia’s Tian Shan Policy Center and Professor of law, after serving as the United States Fulbright Scholar in Kyrgyzstan. She served as the Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability for the United Nations University-EHS Institute, Bonn, Germany from 2009-2012. Leighton’s expertise is in labour migration, democratic governance, human rights and human security and she has conducted global and field research into best practices and the linkages between human migration and development, including impacts to rural livelihoods from unsustainable agricultural land and water management, and climate change.

Camilla HAGSTRÖM, Deputy Head of Employment, Social Inclusion, Migration, European Commission (Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development). With an educational background in political science and international relations, Camilla Hagström joined the European Commission in 1995, where she has always worked in the field of external relations. With a career focused on good governance and justice and home affairs issues, she is particularly experienced in the area of external cooperation on migration and asylum. After four years as deputy Head of Development cooperation in the EU Delegation to the Philippines, in 2012 she was appointed Head of Section for Migration and Asylum in DG DEVCO. Since 2017 she is the deputy Head of Unit of DEVCO.B3; Migration, Employment.