Ms. Gloria Moreno-Fontes Chammartin, originally from Mexico, has a Ph. D on International Studies from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva. From 1993 to 1997, she worked in the Active Labour Market Policies Branch of the Employment Department of the ILO on wages, employment status flexibility, maquiladoras and trade liberalization in Mexico. In November 1997, she joined ILO's Labour Migration Programme (MIGRANT) and since then she has developed and managed research and technical cooperation work in the fields of migration and gender, links between migration and development, deskilling and recognition of skills, and the informal economy, among other topics.

Ms. Moreno-Fontes Chammartin has been providing policy-advice and is in charge of technically backstopping and supervising work on labour migration in the Latin American and Caribbean region, and she covered work in Eastern Europe and Central Asia until June, 2014. Ms. Moreno-Fontes Chammartin also follows inter-agency work on global debates such as the Global Migration Group (GMG), the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), the High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development (HLD) and the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda.