Robert

Rome Italy

Robert W. Meins is a Remittances Specialist at International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) headquarters in Rome. Mr. Meins has been an integral part of IFAD's Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) since his work as a Remittances Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). After representing the IDB as a donor on the FFR's Steering Committee for two years, Mr. Meins moved to IFAD in June of 2009. In charge of the development of the FFR's new projects in Asia, the monitoring of global remittance flows and the FFR’s research program, Mr. Meins has testified before the OAS, speaks regularly at think-tanks and academic institutions, and has been widely quoted in