Elizabeth Collett

Elizabeth Collett is a Global Fellow at MPI, and is a member of Australia’s Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration (MACSM) and chair of MACSM’s Expert Subcommittee, which offers advice and research insight to inform government migration policy. She previously was Special Adviser for Policy and Strategy to the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and before that was Founding Director of MPI Europe in Brussels and Senior Advisor to MPI's Transatlantic Council on Migration.

She has more than 20 years of experience in the migration policy sector, and has produced dozens of working papers, policy briefs, and memos focused on global trends in migration, EU immigration and asylum policy, as well as national-level migration policy developments. She has consulted for numerous government ministries and nongovernmental organizations, including foundations, nonprofits, and UN agencies.

Prior to joining MPI, Ms. Collett was a Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre, a Brussels-based think tank, and was responsible for its migration program. She previously worked in IOM's Migration Research and Policy Department in Geneva and for the Institute for the Study of International Migration in Washington, DC. She also served as a Research Associate at the Centre for Migration Policy and Society, Oxford University (2011-13).

She is a member of the Strategic Council of the European Policy Centre and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.

Ms. Collett holds a master's degree in foreign service (with distinction) from Georgetown University, where she specialized in foreign policy and earned a certificate in refugee and humanitarian studies, and a bachelor's degree in law from Oxford University.