Senior Immigration and Visas Specialist, Head of Unit, IBM - IOM
Bio
As of early 2022, Ms. Kristiina Lilleorg is the Senior Immigration and Visas Specialist, Head of Unit, IBM HQ. She previously held the role of Senior Regional Immigration and Border Management Thematic Specialist with IOM’s Regional Office for North Africa and the Middle East since 2020. Before joining the Cairo office, she worked as Regional Immigration and Border Management Thematic Specialist with IOM Regional Office in Brussels (2016-2020). From 2013 – 2016 she worked as a regional migration management specialist in Abuja, Nigeria, on ECOWAS free movement protocols implementation. She went there from Kabul, Afghanistan, where she worked as Immigration and Border Management Programme Manager and Project Development Officer for IOM Afghanistan from 2010 through 2013. Kristiina joined IOM in 2008 in its Headquarters in Geneva. Before joining IOM, Kristiina worked as a migration specialist with the Estonian Citizenship and Migration Board, and NGOs for IDPs in Russia and Serbia. Kristiina holds an MA in Political Science from Moscow State University for International Relations and speaks English, French, and Russian, with Estonian her mother tongue.