Francesco Carella Profile

Francesco Carella has been serving as Senior Specialist on Labour Migration and Youth Employment at the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean since June 2020. Prior to this, he served as ILO Migration Specialist for Central America, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2016 to 2020) and Labour Migration Chief Technical Advisor for North Africa (2013 to 2016). He had previously worked for UNHCR, IOM, UNDP and the UN Secretariat (Department of Political Affairs). His professional and academic expertise is in migration governance, labour migration, migration and refugee law, migration and development, forced migration, human trafficking, political analysis, and UN interagency coordination. He has taught courses on these issues at the UN University for Peace, the Inter-American Centre for Social Security Studies, the Costa Rican Bar Association, the National Institute of Labour and Social Studies of Tunisia and the International Training Centre of the ILO, among others.

Francesco holds a BA with Honours in European Social and Political Studies and an LLB Bachelors of Laws degree from University College London / University of London, and an MA in Politics and Public Administration from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. His Masters thesis examined the migration-development nexus by focusing on the case study of EU-Morocco relations.

Working languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and passive knowledge of German.