IOM is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Daniel Kweku Sam as the Programme Manager for the IOM Mongolia Country Office, based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Mr. Daniel Kweku Sam joined the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission in Accra, Ghana in 2006 as an Information Campaign Project Assistant on EU funded project to promote safe migration from West Africa through the Maghreb to Europe. Between, 2007-2010, he worked as a Counter-Trafficking Field Coordinator for the IOM Ghana Child Trafficking Project, in the prevention of human trafficking and the protection of victims of trafficking. His work experience has been well equated with a broad range of migration, development, labour mobility and human development issues, particularly policy development, labour migration management, diaspora issues and cooperation on global and regional migration related frameworks.

Mr. Sam also served in various capacities within the IOM Ghana Mission; as the Focal Point on UN Media/Communication Group and Alternate Officer on the UN Gender Team in Ghana, the President/Chair for the IOM Ghana Local Staff Association and Liaison for engagement with the key projects implementing partners within the governments Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

Mr. Sam developed expertise in the areas of migration and development, and diaspora initiatives to manage the Migration for Development for Africa (MIDA) Ghana Health project from 2010 to 2012. As the National Project officer for Policy, Migration and Development, Mr. Sam concurrently managed the Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals (TRQN III) programme – one of IOM’s initiatives to assist governments to engage its diaspora for national development; and the two IOM Development Fund (IDF) projects, which provided support to the Government of Ghana regarding migration policy development and capacity-building on migration management; and improving capacities to leverage migrant remittances for development in Ghana.

Served as a Programme Manager from 2016-2020 for IOM Zimbabwe’s 11th European Development Fund Project– Promoting Migration Governance in Zimbabwe and other IOM Development Fund (IDF) projects, that focused on the establishment of a migration governance framework (policy, institutional and legislative). From September 2020- September 2022, as a Programme Officer-Labour Migration seconded to the ECOWAS Commission’s Directorate of Humanitarian and Social Affairs, under the African Union Commission’s (AUC-ILO-IOM-ECA) Joint Programme on Labour Migration Governance for Development and Integration (JLMP).

Mr Sam has made several presentations on Migration and Human Trafficking Seminars platforms both in Ghana, Zimbabwe and Canada. Apart from presentations, he has contributed chapters to two publications: “Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporation- The Commodification of Illicit Flows” (2012) published by the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Canada and “Child Trafficking: Ghana, Training Manual for the Law Enforcement Agencies in Ghana” developed under ILO/LUTRENA (2005-2006).

Mr. Sam has academic background in Population-and-Development, Health Promotion Education and Migration Studies from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, University of Bergen, Norway and the University of Ghana, Legon-Ghana.