apart from Peter Sutherland, and Joel Millman, there was this guy who has now exited:
Nov 2017: EurActiv: UN chief: Migration ‘highly desirable’ if managed humanely and responsibly
By Paola Tamma
For the first time, the Paris Agreement acknowledged climate change causes migration. At COP23 in Bonn, the big question is how to address it, William Lacy Swing said in an interview with EURACTIV.com.
William Lacy Swing is director general of the UN’s International Organisation for Migration.
Lacy Swing spoke to EURACTIV’s Paola Tamma on the sidelines of the COP23 in Bonn.
Q: Do you think that climate migrants should be given refugee status?
SWING: We need first of all to make a distinction between migrants and refugees. Refugees are people who are politically persecuted and have to leave their own countries, whereas migrants can come in many forms, including forced migrants. What we’re trying to negotiate now in the Global Compact for Migration is an agreement that would give countries a commitment to share responsibility for people on the move. There are many people on the move who don’t qualify as refugees or stateless persons. They haven’t crossed international borders and are not IDP [internally displaced persons] in their own countries, but they need protection...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/interview/un-chief-migration-highly-desirable-if-managed-humanely-and-responsibly/
A Trump UN nominee would be an embarrassment to the United States
Washington Post-11 Feb. 2018
His unsuitability is all the more apparent given the contrast with the man he would succeed at the helm of IOM: William Lacy Swing, a deeply ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-trump-un-nominee-would-be-an-embarrassment-to-the-united-states/2018/02/11/0d415c9e-0b8a-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html
interview during COP17 Durban South Africa in 2011:
VIDEO: Environmental Migration: UNFCCC Climate Change Studio: Interview with William Lacy Swing, Director General of IOM
https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/unfccc-climate-change-studio-interview-william-lacy-swing-director-general-iom
Wikipedia: William Lacy Swing is a former United States Ambassador, and United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Under Secretary General...
In June 2008 Swing was elected Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...
Calls Migration a ‘Right’ in a ‘World on the Move’
Penning an article for International Migrants Day entitled, “Our Right of Passage Should Be Safe Migration”, International Organization for Migration (IOM) chief William Lacy Swing opined that the right of “safe migration” should not be limited to the “global elite” – of which the “privileged” caste he believes to include tourists, students, and legal migrant workers – but should be extended to those who would “have no chance of getting a visa or work permit”.
“While we live in a time when a privileged elite considers global mobility virtually a birth-right, it is denied to countless others, trapped in hopelessly bad economic or conflict circumstances,” Swing writes, lamenting that “hundreds of millions who are not part of the growing, truly global labour talent market find themselves outside looking in, and looking onto a world they can only dream of.”
Swing, a former U.S. ambassador, has previously demanded the European Union (EU) open her borders to migrants and described endless third world migration to Europe as “inevitable”. ...
Swings term as Director General will end in September 2018...
20 May: Breitbart: United Nations Migration Chief Attacks Trump, Claims Mass Migration in ‘National Interest’
by Jack Montgomery
United Nations Migration Agency Director-General William Lacy Swing has issued a barely concealed attack on the U.S. President, claimed mass migration is in the “national interest”, and that concerns about migrants are based on “false stereotypes and unfounded fear”...
The former U.S. diplomat issued his thinly veiled attack on President Trump in an interview with the Korea Herald, buttressing it with a sustained assault on populism more generally...
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/05/20/un-migration-boss-attacks-trump-mass-migration-national-interest/
well, that's what it's all about isn't it? governments want taxes to, among other things, pay exorbitant salaries to useless diplomats like Swing, who likely has only experienced the poor sections of town through a car window. But to employ people who pay taxes, businesses have to be able to afford expansion and they can't do that if their entire operation is dumbed down to unskilled manual labor.