Mr. Ryszard Cholewinski joined the Labour Migration Branch in September 2010. Prior to coming to the ILO, he was a Senior Migration Policy and Research Specialist in the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva and Reader in Law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

He has written widely on the human rights of migrants, labour migration, and various aspects of European Union law and policy relating to migration. In particular, he is the author of "Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law: Their Protection in Countries of Employment (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997) and two publications for the Council of Europe "The Legal Status of Migrants Admitted for Employment Merchants of Labour" (2004), and "Irregular Migrants: Access to Minimum Social Rights" (2005). While at IOM, he was co-editor-in-chief of "World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Exonomy" and also co-authored two editions of the "Handbook on Establishing Effective Labour Migration Policies in Countries of Origin and Destination" (2006, 2007), a joint publication of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), IOM and ILO.

He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa, a Master in Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Leicester.

Work areas: Human and labour rights of migrants; EU law and policy on migration; irregular migration.

Working languages: English, Polish, French (working knowledge)