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Robert W. Meins (IFAD)

Tuesday, 07 July 2009 11:41

Robert W. Meins is a Remittances Specialist at International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) headquarters in Rome. He is responsible for IFAD's Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) projects in Asia as well as research and dissemination.

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Prior to joining IFAD, Robert was a Remittances Specialist at the Inter-American Development bank (IDB) in Washington DC. In this position, he was responsible for broad range of activities including quantification and analysis of remittance flows to Latin America and the Caribbean, dissemination, and project development. He led a technical cooperation with the African Development Bank focused on sharing MIF experiences with the AFDB and was responsible for the development of line of activity on improving remittance services through new technologies.

Robert regularly speaks at think-tanks and academic institutions, and is often quoted in the international press. In 2008 he worked as an expert panelist on the first "Global Migration Barometer" published by the Economist Intelligence Unit and funded by Western Union. He was most recently the official MIF representative at the Global Forum on Migration and Development in the Philippines.

Robert holds a Dutch “Doctoraal” degree in International Relations from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His specialization being in International Political Economics and specifically on remittances, anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) as well as the oil & gas sector.

Prior to joining the IFAD and the IDB, Robert was founder and chairman of the Foundation for International Migration and Development (FIMD), dedicated to bringing together government, migrant organizations, academia and the general public and sharing knowledge on issues of migration and development.