Monsignor Robert J. Vitillo has been Secretary General of the International Catholic Migration Commission since June 2016. In June 2022, ICMC’s Plenary Council extended his term for a second four-year mandate.
A United States national, Msgr. Vitillo is a trained social worker with broad expertise in migration and refugee services, child protection, social services, human rights, HIV/AIDS and global health. From 2005 to 2016, he served as Delegation Head at Caritas Internationalis in Geneva and as Special Advisor on HIV and AIDS.
From 1997 to 2005, Msgr. Vitillo held the position of Executive Director for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. During the 1980’s, as Director of Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, he coordinated the resettlement of Southeast Asian, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Haitian and Cuban refugees to the United States and assisted ICMC in the design of cultural orientation programs for refugees in Bataan, Philippines.
