BIMAL GHOSH is Emeritus Professor at Colombia's Graduate School of Public Administration, and director of a global project in migration management: the New International Regime for Orderly Movements of People (NIROMP). For several years he worked as a senior consultant to the United Nations, and the International Organization for Migration in Geneva. He was visiting professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Institute for International Development and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. Publications include Managing Migration: Time for a New International Regime? and Huddled Masses and Uncertain Shores: Insights into Irregular Migration as well as numerous journal articles and newspaper columns.