Justin MacDermott

Commission Member

Justin MacDermott is the Deputy Director of the Division for Migration and Asylum at Ministry of Justice of Sweden. He was the Former Adviser supporting the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration, Mr. Peter Sutherland. Most recently, he served as Senior Policy Adviser in the Secretariat for the Swedish Chairmanship of the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

Prior to this, Mr. MacDermott headed the African Security Studies Programme at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Previously, he worked for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Zimbabwe and Bangladesh as well as for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).

Mr. MacDermott holds an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.