Ms. Rana Ksaifi
Head, Caribbean Protection Unit, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Biography - Rana Ksaifi
CFO & Founder
Ms. Rana G Ksaifi is Lebanese-Canadian with over 16 years of work experience with UNHCR, working in different locations in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. She was in the Middle East and North Africa region during the Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Mediterranean crisis and also deployed to Turkey and Colombia to assist in designing and advising on registration/verification projects for the respective Governments.
Rana holds a BA in Human Relations from Concordia University in Canada and an Msc. in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics. Rana is currently the head of the Caribbean Protection Unit managing and supporting the Caribbean from UNHCR’s Multi-Country Office in Washington.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) was established by the Twenty Seventh Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government in July 2006, in Bird Rock, St Kitts and Nevis, as the implementation arm of a new Regional Architecture to manage CARICOM’s action agenda on crime and security.
