Michael Molloy
October 9, 2018Michael Molloy is the co-author of “Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugee Movement 1975-80” and has 40 years of experience in international and refugee affairs.
Mike was Ambassador to Jordan (1996-2000) and Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (2000-03). As Director of Refugee Policy, 1976 -1978, he led design of the refugee provisions of the 1976 Immigration Act, including the Convention Refugee and Designated Classes, the private refugee sponsorship program and the WUSC refugee student program.
In 1979 and 1980 he coordinated the Indochinese refugee program that brought 60,000 refugees to Canada. He was directly involved in the Czechoslovakian (1968) and Uganda Asian (1972) refugee movements, was Counsellor for Humanitarian Affairs at the Canadian Mission in Geneva 1981-84, and managed immigration and refugee operations in Jordan, Syria, East Africa and Ontario.
He is President of the Canadian Immigration Historical Society.