Chief of Mission

Ms. Géraldine Ansart is the Chief of Mission in Thailand. She has 20 years of experience in humanitarian aid and development programming.

Before taking her post in Thailand, she served as IOM's Syria Crisis Coordinator overseeing emergency and post crisis operations in Syria and neighbouring countries based in Jordan and then IOM HQ in Switzerland.

Between 2009 and 2013, she managed IOM’s institutional partnership with the European Union’s Humanitarian Aid Office from the IOM Regional Office in Brussels.

Between 2005 and 2009, she worked as a Migration and Development Specialist and implemented several Migration and Development projects in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Ms. Ansart holds a double degree in Public Law and Political Sciences from the Institute of Political Sciences in Lyon, France, the Queen’s University in Belfast, United Kingdom, and the University of Clermont Auvergne, France, as well as a master’s degree in International Administration from Sorbonne University, Paris.