25th-27th MARCH 2025
MADRID, SPAIN

Ana Dodevska

Ana Dodevska

  • Head of the Labour Migration, Social Inclusion and IBG Unit
  • IOM Spain

    Ana Dodevska is the Head of the Labour Migration, Social Inclusion and IBG Unit at the IOM Country Office in Spain, where she supervises national and European project in various thematic areas, such as Integrated Border management (IBG), Labor Migration, Private Sector Partnership, among others.

    Her academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in European law and two Master degrees (MsC) in Advanced Studies in Human Rights and Master in Fundamental Rights, both from the Carlos III University of Madrid. During the latter, she specializes in international migration.

    Ana has been a staff member of the International Organization for Migration, the UN Agency for migration since 2016.

    Before joining IOM, Ana worked on European projects with the National Ombudsman Office in her hometown – Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia.

    Sessions

    • Trends in Irregular and Mass Migration and THB

      According to UNHCR figures by May 2024, more than 120 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. This includes 43.4 million refugees, 63.3 million internally displaced people, 6.9 million asylum seekers and 5.8 million people in need of international protection.
      But it is not just conflict and persecution that drives migration. Economic and educational opportunities are also major drivers and, in the years to come, climate change will play an increasing role in setting people on the move. Human traffickers exploit these people at their most vulnerable to extort money and drive migrants into slave labour and the sex trade.
      Whether it is conflicts, natural disasters or economics, the flow of migrants from poor southern countries to rich northern ones is probably only going to increase.
      So, what are current trends in migration and what further can be done to tackle those bad actors that are ready to exploit these people when they are at their most vulnerable.