Michael Molloy
Michael Molloy
Honorary senior fellow




Biography

Mike Molloy served as Coordinator of the Middle East Peace Process at the Department of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003 and was previously Ambassador of Canada to Jordan. A founding member of the Multilateral Refugee Working Group (Middle East Peace Process) he has worked on the Palestinian refugee issue since the early 1990s and has been Co-Director of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative at the University of Windsor since 2003. During a long career at the Department of Immigration, Mike was involved first hand in the Czech and Ugandan refugee movements, oversaw the implementation of the refugee provisions of the 1976 Immigration Act, and coordinated the resettlement of 60,000 Indochinese refugees in Canada in 1979-80. He served in Japan, Lebanon, Minneapolis, Geneva, Jordan (twice), Syria and Kenya and was Director General of Citizenship and Immigration in Ontario.