Colleen Thouez chairs the capacity development cross-cutting theme for the World Bank's KNOMAD. Dr. Thouez is Senior Training and Research Advisor at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and adjunct faculty at American University's School of International Service. Since 2015, she advises the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Migration on governance reforms in this field, and co-leads a migration governance project housed at Columbia University's Global Policy Initiative.