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SUMMARY:Refugees and Migration - Mr Filippo Grandi\, UN High Commissioner 
 for Refugees
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:How\, in a world of modern nation states\, shared prosperity\,
  and boundless capabilities can refugees and migrants on the move today fi
 nd themselves exposed to kidnapping for ransom\, imprisonment and torture?
  What should shape our response to those uprooted and on the move in ‘mi
 xed’ migratory flows? And what is the role of international cooperation 
 and the modern system of international refugee protection?\n\n \n\nDrawing
  on more than 30 years of experience in refugee and international affairs\
 , UN Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi will reflect on these questi
 ons\, and on the intersection between refugee movements and the broader dy
 namics of human mobility and migration today. \n\nBiography\n\nFilippo Gra
 ndi became the 11th United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on 1 Jan
 uary 2016. He was elected by the UN General Assembly to serve a five-year 
 term\, until 31 December 2020.\n\nAs High Commissioner\, he heads one of t
 he world’s largest humanitarian organizations. UNHCR has twice won the N
 obel Peace Prize. Its 15\,000-strong workforce spans 128 countries providi
 ng protection and assistance to nearly 60 million refugees\, returnees\, i
 nternally displaced people and stateless persons. Some 88 per cent of UNHC
 R staff work in the field\, often in difficult and dangerous duty stations
 . The organization's needs-based budget for 2017 is US$7.3 billion.\n\n\nB
 efore being elected High Commissioner\, Grandi had been engaged in interna
 tional cooperation for over 30 years\, focusing on refugee and humanitaria
 n work. He served as Commissioner-General of the UN Agency for Palestine r
 efugees\, UNRWA\, from 2010 to 2014\, after having been the organization
 ’s Deputy Commissioner-General since 2005. Prior to that\, Grandi served
  as Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Afghanist
 an\, following a long career first with NGOs and later with UNHCR in Afric
 a\, Asia\, the Middle East and at the organization’s Geneva headquarters
 .\n\nGrandi was born in Milan in 1957. He holds a degree in modern history
  from the State University in Milan\, a BA in Philosophy from the Gregoria
 n University in Rome\, as well as an honorary doctorate from the Universit
 y of Coventry.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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