Paddy Siyanga Knudsen is a Zambian national with over 17 years of professional experience as a Development Economist. She holds a Master in Financial Economics from SOAS and BSc Development & Economics from London School of Economics. Her work covers development cooperation, regional integration and migration governance. Her experience includes supporting governments, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), bilateral development partners, EU institutions, Civil society as well as UN agencies in engagement strategies, research, programme formulation, implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation. On migration governance, she has worked with IOM, UNESCO, UNHCR, EU, civil society, foundations and diaspora organisations in continental Europe, Jordan, China, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe as well as other assignments in West, East and Southern Africa. Her areas of interest in migration governance include labour migration, migration and development as well as diaspora engagement. She is a Vice President of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora & Transnationalism (GRFDT), member of GFMD civil society International steering committee, civil society rapporteur under the GFMD-GCM team, member of UN network on migration worksteams on remittances/Diaspora, member of GIZ Diaspora Advisory Board as well as Indicators. She also coordinates the African nonstate actors platform on GFMD/GCM.

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
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Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Independent Consultant

    Other, Zambia
    Development Economist|Migration Governance expert

  • Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism

    Research Institute, New Delhi, India
    Vice President

  • GIZ MEG Diaspora Advisory Board

    Governmental Organisation, Germany
    Board member

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