Anna Terrón Cusí
Senior Fellow
Anna Terrón Cusí, Spain’s former Secretary of State for Immigration and Emigration, is a Senior Fellow at MPI and co-founder of InStrategies.
Ms. Terrón was CEO at the Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIIAPP, or the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies) from 2019 to 2024. She served as Secretary of State for Immigration and Emigration from 2010 to 2012. In 2012, she was appointed Special Advisor on Migration and Mediterranean Issues to European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström. She also served in other positions, including Secretary for the European Union of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalan Government Delegate to the European Union, and Member of the European Parliament (1994–2004).
Her career in the public sector has primarily focused on the European Union and international affairs. Internationally, much of her activity has focused on the Middle East and Maghreb, as well as the Atlantic, African, and Latin American regions. She has worked extensively in the field of international migration and human mobility.
Ms. Terrón holds a BA in political science and public administration.
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