Passionate about addressing migration and displacement, Caroline has over a decade of experience in policy development and implementation on migration and forced displacement in the Horn of Africa. Currently, Caroline serves as the Chief Technical Advisor for the ILO in Kenya focusing on inclusive jobs and education (skills) for host communities and refugees. Prior to her current post, she headed the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Regional Secretariat on Forced Displacement and Mixed Migration. An initiative that sought to address development impacts of displacement and mixed migration and between 2008-2011, she worked with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Somalia on migration governance. Before her assignments in the Horn of Africa region, Caroline worked with a community-based organization in Berlin that supported African migrants in their asylum process.

She is widely published in the field of migration and forced displacement with publications such as “Migration and human Security in Eastern and Southern Africa” (2013), “The African Union & Sustainable Development” (2012), and “Immigrants, Refugees and Sustainable Development” (2012). She has been profiled in the Carnegie New York Peace Builders series among other features globally and has served as a member of the informal advisory Group on International Migration of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. She has also co-founded the Africa Centre for Displacement and Migration (ACDM), an organization that seeks to link policy on migration and displacement with local development realities and processes. Caroline holds a master’s degree in conflict management from Alice Salomon University, and bachelors in History and Religion from Kenyatta University.