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issues at the headquarters of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2007 to 2010. There she authored background documents for the Global Forum on Migration and Development in 2008, and coauthored a publication on IOM’s Migration for Development programs in 2009 and a paper on Migration and Development in the Least Developed Countries in 2010. She was also a Research Officer on the team that wrote the IOM’s 2010 World Migration Report. Since July 2010, she has been the Research Officer of the Observatory on African, Caribbean, and Pacific Migration based in Brussels, Belgium. Ndioro Ndiaye is one of the first African women to pass the concours de l’agrégation, the highest competitive examination for teachers, in France, specializing in odontology and stomatology. In 1988, Professor Ndiaye was appointed to the position of Minister for Social Development. On behalf of the Government of Senegal, she coordinated humanitarian activities during the crisis between Senegal and Mauritania in 1989. As the supervising Minister, Professor Ndiaye designed and implemented practical solutions to assist both Senegalese and Mauritanian migrants displaced by the conflict. She was responsible for dealing with population movements arising from the situation in Casamance, where there has been a conflict for over 20 years. From 1990 to 1995, Professor Ndiaye was Minister for Women’s, Children’s and Family Affairs. Thereafter, and until her appointment as Deputy Director-General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), she resumed her numerous activities at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, where she was instrumental in reforming tertiary education in Senegal. Professor Ndiaye is currently president of the Dakar, Senegal-based Alliance for Migration, Leadership and Development (AMLD), a nongovernmental organization she founded after serving her term as the Deputy Director-General at the IOM from 1999 to 2009. She has published numerous scientific papers and has written several works and studies on social and political issues. Professor Ndiaye initiated the Migration for Development in Africa Experience and Beyond book and the Diaspora Dialogues. She is Commandeur des Palmes académiques and Chevalier dans l’ordre de la Légion d’Honneur in France, and Commandeur de l’Ordre du Lion du Sénégal. Rougui Ndiaye-Coïc obtained her Masters in Geopolitics from the French Institute of Geopolitics, in Paris in 2005, with special mention, and a BA in international relations from the Institut des Hautes Études en Relations