TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019
8:30 A.M. TO 1:00 P.M. ET
AGENDA & SPEAKERS
8:30 – 8:45 AM: Welcome Remarks and Overview
- Andrew Selee, President, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
8:45 – 10:15 AM: Regional Responses to Venezuelan Migration (Panel 1)
- Frieda Roxana Del Águila Tuesta, Superintendent of Migration, Peru
- Christian Krüger Sarmiento, Director, Migration Colombia
- Hernán Yánez González, Under Secretary of International Protection and Assistance for Immigrants, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador
- Jose Tomás Vicuña, National Director, Servicio Jesuita de Migrantes, Chile
- Raísa Ortiz Cetra, Member, International Team, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, Argentina
- Moderator: Andrew Selee, President, MPI
10:30 – 11:30 AM : Regional Responses to Nicaraguan Outflows (Panel 2)
- Carlos Andrés Torres Salas, Vice Minister of the Interior and Police, Costa Rica
- Harold Villegas-Román, Advisor to the Vice Minister of the Interior and Police; and Commissioner, Restricted Visa and Refugee Commission, Costa Rica
- Alberto Cortés Ramos, Professor, Political Science Department, University of Costa Rica
- Elvira Cuadra Lira, Sociologist and former Executive Director, Institute for Strategic and Public Policy Studies, Nicaragua
- Moderator: Manuel Orozco, Director, Migration, Remittances, and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM: The International Response to the Venezuelan and Nicaraguan Humanitarian Crises (Panel 3)
- Chiara Cardoletti-Carroll, Deputy Regional Representative for the United States and the Caribbean, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Luca Dall’Oglio, Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM) USA
- Nancy Izzo Jackson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State
- Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, Director, Department of Social Inclusion, Organization of American States (OAS)
- Joaquim Tres, Principal Specialist, Migration Initiative, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
- Moderator: Juan F. Jiménez Mayor, former Prime Minister and former Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Peru
12:45 – 1:00 PM: New Approaches toward Protection and Integration in the Region?
- Diego Chaves, Visiting Fellow, MPI
- Jessica Bolter, Associate Policy Analyst, MPI
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LOCATION
Migration Policy Institute Conference Room
1400 16th Street NW,
Suite 300 (Third Floor)
Washington, DC 20036
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