Diana Cartier

Chief of Mission | IOM UN

Ms Cartier joined as Chief of Mission for IOM Costa Rica in July 2021. She has worked in international development, humanitarian, recovery and stabilization worldwide for over twenty years. Ms. Cartier joined IOM in 2006 and worked in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Norway and Chad working in emergency and post crisis contexts as well as in the fields of migration development and governance to ensure benefit of migration. Most recently, she was in IOM’s headquarters in Geneva in the central evaluation office. Ms Cartier is a bi-national of France and the United States and raised in Morocco and Uganda. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Macalester College in Minnesta, United States and a Master’s in International Development from the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, France. Prior to joining IOM, Ms. Cartier worked with NGOs and consulting firms on community development and migrant and refugee support in the United States, South Africa and Mozambique.