The Private Sector Forum on Migration and Refugees

Concordia, Columbia University’s Global Policy Initiative, the International Organization for Migration, and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, with the support of the Open Society Foundations and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, hosted a series of high-level interactive discussions on the private sector’s role and responsibility in addressing global migration challenges and the current refugee crisis. A curated gathering of 200 cross-sector leaders joined this invitation-only forum, which culminated in a plenary session issuing a Call to Action to all 1,500+ Concordia Summit attendees on the need to combine efforts and partner across sectors to provide tangible solutions for forced migration.

Conversation Leads

Justina Adlyte

Senior Associate, Global Corporate Responsibility, Deloitte

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Director, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility

Lina Attar

Co-Founder & CEO, Karam Foundation

Joel Bell

Chair of the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership

Joshua Bennett

Executive Vice President, Show of Force

Dr. Alexander Betts

Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs & Fellow ...

Kelly T. Clements

UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR

Bruce Cohen

Founder, Talent Beyond Boundaries

Garry Conille

Under Secretary General, Programmes and Operations, International Federation of ...

Brendan Cox

Global Refugee Hub

Tim Dixon

Co-Founder, More in Common

Christopher Egerton-Warburton

Partner, Lion’s Head Global Partners

H.E. Imad Fakhoury

Minister of Planning & International Cooperation, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jorda...

H.E. Johannes Hahn

Member of the European Commission for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargem...

Mazen Hayek

Official Spokesman & Group Director of Commercial, PR & CSR, MBC Group

Per Heggenes

CEO, Ikea Foundation

Becca Heller

Director & Co-Founder, International Refugee Assistance Project

Will Jones

Lecturer in International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London

Hon. Georgios Kaminis

Mayor of Athens, Greece

Meb Keflezighi

Olympic Silver Medalist & Boston Marathon Champion

Amed Khan

President, Paradigm Global Group

Sofia Kouvelaki

Executive Director, The HOME Project

Blair Levin

Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute Metropolitan Policy Program...

Alejandro Litovsky

CEO & Founder, Earth Security Group

Florian Maganza

EMEA Lead, Google.org

Gregory A. Maniatis

Director, Open Society International Migration Initiative

John McCallum

Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada

Matthew McGuire

U.S. Executive Director, The World Bank