Ms. Ana Fonseca serves as the IOM Chief of Mission in Conakry, Guinea, and holds the position of non-resident Chief of Mission of IOM to Liberia. She assumed leadership of the Conakry mission in May 2021 and the Liberia mission in September 2021. Ana, based in Conakry, Guinea, oversees both missions with a focus on managing activities, program development, fundraising, institutional liaison, and the promotion of IOM services and strategy in Liberia and Guinea. With over two decades of experience, having joined the organization in April 1999, Ms. Fonseca plays a pivotal role in advancing IOM's mission and objectives in both countries.
Ms. Fonseca has twenty years of professional experience on international migration, public representation, and management with specialty in the fields of migration management and direct assistance to migrants, return migration and reintegration. She has verse experience on policy formulation for international cooperation in the field of migration.
Ms. Ana Fonseca is a key developer of IOM’s global footprint, and she also has long standing experience in designing and managing international projects with regional and global scope.
In that capacity, she has also been trained as a trainer, with various thematic training modules (internal and external) designed and delivered at regional level in Asia and the Pacific, Central, North America and the Caribbean, South America, West Africa, MENA, East and Southern Africa. This also includes National trainings in Afghanistan, China, Belarus, and Cyprus.