Richard Danziger recently retired as a Director after 28 years with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).  He was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on Migration and chaired their Council on Illicit Trade & Organized Crime. He was also a founding member of the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking.

Richard’s main areas of expertise are migration & security, prevention/countering of violent extremism and illicit trade.  He has worked on rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremists in Somalia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, and broader PVE programmes in Afghanistan and throughout the Sahel.