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Frances Sullivan currently carries out responsibilities as
the IOM Regional Representative for North America and the Caribbean through MRF
Washington. In this position, she oversees liaisons with Governments and other
regional partners for IOM’s global program base, and particularly in response
to regional migration challenges.
Previously, Ms. Sullivan managed corporate outreach and
private sector partnerships as the IOM Director of Private Sector Liaison in
New York, between August 2000 and October of 2001. She also served as IOM’s
Special Coordinator and Chief of Mission in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
from October 1997 to July 2000, where she directed the planning, design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a multi-faceted program base of
$20 million annually and advised on regional activities in the former
Yugoslavia. From September 1993 to September 1997, Ms. Sullivan was the Chief
of Fundraising in IOM’s Geneva Headquarters, where she was instrumental in
organizing and implementing IOM’s resource mobilization strategy. During her
tenure in this capacity, she negotiated bi-lateral contributions from
Governments and international institutions, and established donor relations
guidelines for IOM’s worldwide network of field missions. Ms. Sullivan’s career
with IOM began in 1985, as an Operations Officer and later Chief of Mission for
the Organization’s office in Washington, DC.
Ms. Sullivan earned a Masters Degree in Public
Administration in 1985 from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government and a BS in Biology from Merrimack College in 1976. She spent three
years as a Peace Corps Volunteer and Regional Representative in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), and worked for four years in the health
care field in Boston, Massachusetts prior to starting her graduate work at
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