Deputy Director, IOM Office at the United Nations, New York

Agnes N ALI (Fiji) is the is the Deputy Director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office at the United Nations in New York. Previously, she served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Fiji to the UN where she handled both policy and administrative oversight. Ms. Ali actively engaged in intergovernmental negotiations processes and within sub-regional groupings such as G77 plus China, AOSIS and Pacific SIDS.

During Fiji’s capacity as Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, she coordinated the regional technical working group meetings which led to the successful inclusion of the Forum Declaration on preserving maritime zones in the face of climate change related sea level rise. She also actively supported Vanuatu during its campaign for the resolution requesting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to provide an advisory opinion on climate change which was co-sponsored by more than 130 countries.

Additionally, Ms. Ali co-facilitated several key UN Resolutions at the technical level. This includes work on the 2021 Financing for Development Forum and the LDC graduation processes for Bangladesh, Vanuatu, Lao PDR, and Vietnam. She also contributed to the ECOSOC Resolution on Geospatial Information Management Systems, which addresses the challenges that national geospatial, mapping, and cadastral agencies face due to rapid technological advancements.

With prior experience as a UN Coordination Specialist in the UN Pacific Multi-Country context, Ms. Ali brings extensive development and political expertise to her new role at IOM.