John K. Bingham

Mr. Bingham is the Head of Policy of the International Catholic Migration Commission, based in Geneva. A network of 130 members worldwide, ICMC has staff and operations in 40 countries, working with refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants regardless of faith, race, ethnicity or nationality, for rights-based policies and durable solutions.

Before joining ICMC, Mr Bingham worked for eight years for Catholic Charities in New York, where he was director of the departments of Immigrant and Refugee Services and later Capital Projects and Law. Mr. Bingham also served as Chairman of the Board of the New York Immigration Coalition, an advocacy network with 180 member organizations, and on the migration advisory group for the US Catholic Conference of Bishops.

During the eight prior years, Mr Bingham taught human rights and criminal justice in a refugee camp of 240,000 Cambodians in Thailand, and later international business law at the university in Cambodia’s capital, where he co-authored two books, Free Market Contract Law and an English-Cambodian Law Dictionary;

A lawyer with degrees from Fordham Law School and St. John’s University in New York, Mr. Bingham first worked for eight years in the legal department of a major Wall Street investment bank, where he was Vice President.

The "eights" stop there: together with a beautiful French woman, he has four sons, aged 13, 10, 9 and 6.