Head, Border and Identity Solutions Unit, Immigration and Border Management Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Bio
Donato Colucci is the “Senior Border and Identity Solutions (BIS) Specialist based at the IOM Headquarters in Geneva.
He provides to IOM offices and Governmental counterparts expertise, planning and guidance in the development, coordination, and implementation of capacity building initiatives, in particular on border and identity solutions, border and migration management policies and strategies, including Integrated Border Management and data collection and analysis.
He assists IOM Regional Offices and Governmental counterparts in developing, implementing and monitoring IOM's capacity building strategies as well as training initiatives at national as well at regional level, undertaking, when requested, technical field assessments.
With the IOM IT-Expert, he provides technical support for assessing, budgeting, installing and training on Border Management Information System (BMIS) and trains on various IBM topics including passport examination procedures.
Prior he was “Migration Management Specialist” at the African Capacity Building Centre (ACBC), in Moshi (Tanzania), IOM’s center of excellence for capacity building, before being appointed as “Senior Immigration and Border Management regional Specialist” for North Africa and Middle East first and Asia and the Pacific after.
With the United Nation he was Police Commander of the international airport of Pristine, seconded from the Italian Police Department (Polizia di Stato) to the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). In Italy, he is a Police Officer from the Central Directorate of Immigration and Border Police of the Italian Ministry of Interior, currently on special leave for serving IOM as an expert on migration management issues.
Mr. Colucci completed cum laude a Master of Art Degree in “Strategic Studies and Diplomatic Science” (Italy -Rome) and a Bachelor degree in “Political Science and International Relations” (Italy – Rome)