Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Research & Publications Division at IOM headquarters in Geneva and Editor of IOM’s flagship World Migration Report. She is an international migration specialist with over 25 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior government official and researcher.

Marie has researched, published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration and is on the editorial boards of scientific journals International Migration, Migration Studies and Migration and Development, and is an Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review. She edits IOM’s World Migration Report in partnership with leading migration researchers (2018 edition with Martin Ruhs, 2020 edition with Binod Khadria, 2022 edition with Anna Triandafyllidou and 2024 edition with Linda Oucho). She also edits IOM's Migration Policy Practice journal, and is a regular contributor to the World Economic Forum’s Agenda series.

Marie is a Senior Associate (non-resident) at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC, senior fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Sir Roland Wilson Fellow at the School of Demography at the Australian National University (ANU). She is a member of MIT’s Global Technology Review Panel, IUSSP’s panel on international migration and curates the World Economic Forum’s Migration Transformation Map. Marie previously served as an elected board member of the Academic Council on the UN System, and as co-chair of the World Bank’s KNOMAD thematic working group on migration data and demography. She is regularly called upon to advise Presidents, Ministers, senior officials and CEOs on migration and displacement, including former UN Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, in his capacity as Chair of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State.

Marie has led research, analysis and policy teams in government and previously consulted to IOM, ILO as well as in the private sector, including in South Korea, Russia, Central Asia and Turkey. For three years (2012–2014), Marie directed the $6.5 million Australian irregular migration research program, which resulted in an ANU Press book edited by Marie (with Khalid Koser).

Marie was awarded a Sir Roland Wilson scholarship in 2015 to complete doctoral research at ANU on irregular migration. She is the 2018 recipient of the Charles Price Prize in demography for outstanding doctoral research.