Dina Ionesco is the Head of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Division at the UN Migration Agency (IOM). In this capacity, she oversees, since 2015, IOM’s policies and programmes related to the nexus between migration, environment and climate change and coordinates IOM’s contributions to policy processes, such as the climate change negotiations. She is the co-author of the Atlas of Environmental Migration (2016) and of numerous articles and publications. Dina has joined IOM in 2004, to work on diaspora policies, migration and development, and has worked for over four years in the IOM Research Division.