Alfonso Palacios Torres is the Chair of the Business Advisory Group on Migration, hosted at the International Organisation of Employers.
Alfonso is a lawyer from the Universidad Externado de Colombia; an expert in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales de Madrid; and holds a PhD in Public Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Determined to include the private sector in the global migration discourse, the GFMD Business Mechanism was created as a platform for businesses to engage with Governments and other stakeholders on migration issues.
Watch this video to learn more about bringing business to the GFMD. The GFMD Business Mechanism was endorsed at the 2015 GFMD Summit in Istanbul as a platform for businesses to engage with Governments and other stakeholders on migration. We address issues of workforce mobility, skills and labour market needs matching, fair recruitment and decent work conditions, social welfare and public perception.
On September 19th 2016, UN Member states signed the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants which launched a process of intergovernmental negotiations that will result in the adoption of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) in 2018.
The Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) is the key international forum to address migration and development interconnections, with a focus on action. It is an informal, non-binding, voluntary and government-led process.
The International Organisation of Employers (IOE) partners with Seedstars to identify 10 innovative tech solutions supporting labour migration processes to showcase at the Global Forum
UN Migration (IOM) and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) leaders issue a joint call for the inclusion of business in decisions on labour mobility
