Pier Rossi-Longhi

• Senior Regional Immigration and Border Governance Specialist
• IOM

Senior Regional Immigration & Border Governance Specialist at the IOM Vienna Regional Office for South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, covering 19 countries in total.

Pier holds a Master’s  Degree in Political Science and has 26 years of practical experience in IOM Technical Cooperation working on all continents. During the years Pier has developed a deep understanding of migration security issues from the legal, administrative, and operational angles, including the full breath of Border Management technologies. He has conducted several specifically border but also wider immigration management assessments. On behalf of IOM he participated in the ICAO working groups on Identity and Breeder documents and, later, joined the CTED Counter Terrorism Committee on some of their country assessment missions. Aside from specific technical expertise Pier has a broad perspective on migration governance and the strategic challenges of balancing control & facilitation.