Magda Majkowska-Tomkin

Magda Majkowska-Tomkin serves as Deputy Regional Director for Global Fund for Children’s work in Europe and Eurasia, supporting grant-making, capacity building and wider strategic development in the region. She has two decades experience in migration & displacement, human rights, democracy and social justice in international organizations and the philanthropic sector in Europe.

Prior to joining GFC, Magda was a Division Director for Rights, Civic Space and Migration, at Europe and Eurasia Program of Open Society Foundations (OSF), leading the work on migration and displacement in Europe, shrinking space for civil society and the rule of law, and support to pro-democracy work in Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining the Open Society Foundations, Magda worked in a variety of leadership roles for the International Organization for Migration, focusing mainly on issues of labour migration and migrant integration in Central Europe, the Western Balkans, and Western Europe.

Magda began her career working on migration and refugee issues in Ireland, within the Integrating Ireland network of migrant and refugee support organizations, and with Metro Eireann, the multicultural magazine written by and for migrant communities. She holds a master’s degree in international relations and European studies from Central European University in Budapest, and a degree in sociology from Gdansk University in Poland. Magda speaks Polish, Hungarian and has a working knowledge of German and Italian.