Natasa Xenophontos Koudouna is Project Manager of IOM Cyprus. She has over 23 years of experience in migration, regional development programming, as well as employment and social affairs. She currently specializes in protection, with a particular focus on unaccompanied migrant children, living conditions, and access to integration, including education, healthcare, and employment opportunities. She holds a BA (Hons) in European Studies from the University of Manchester (UK) and an MA in European Politics and Public Administration from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). She currently serves as Project Manager at IOM Cyprus.

Her key areas of expertise include international migration, human rights and migrants’ rights, protection, return and reintegration, vulnerable migrants, alternatives to detention, health coverage, ethical recruitment, business and employment rights, as well as project development, monitoring, and evaluation. Throughout her career, she has held several important positions, including Project Manager at the European Commission in Brussels, roles in the Office of the European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs and in the Directorate-General for Regional Policy covering Malta and Slovenia, Consultant to local government, Liaison for the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus to the EU Council of Ministers, and Head of Office at IOM Cyprus.

She is the author or co-author of publications related to funding during the pre-accession period of the Republic of Cyprus to the European Union. She speaks English and French fluently, Greek as her mother tongue, and has university-entry proficiency level in German.