Hakki Onur Ariner has been working as a consultant to the Ministry of Interior of Turkey, Bureau Responsible for the Development and Implementation of the Legislation on Asylum, Migration and Administrative Capacity since late 2009. Mr. Ariner has been primarily involved in harmonizing the Law on Foreigners and International Protection with international standards and the EU Acquis, and is currently working, in cooperation with a team from the Bureau, on drafting secondary legislation outlining the implementation of the said law.

Mr. Ariner has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University, and is about to submit his Ph.D. thesis in Political Science and Public Administration, entitled “Strategic-selectivity and the Construction of ‘Civil Society:’ The Case of Women’s NGOs in Turkey and their Involvement in Provincial Human Rights Boards.”

Selected current work projects include:
PhD candidate at the Middle East Technical University Department of Political Science and Public Administration.
Member of the team drafting secondary legislation to Turkey’s Draft Law on Foreigners and International Protection
Contributing to the preparation of a checklist of women’s human rights for Ministry of Interior inspectors

Doctor in European Human Rights Law, Frédérique Ast is working as a senior legal adviser within the French Defender of Rights (an independent administrative body fighting against discrimination and promoting equality). She assists victims of discrimination (racial, religious etc) by investigating their cases and finding appropriate solutions, before the courts or not. As a visiting Professor within the Faculty of Law of Lille (Catholic University), she also gives lectures on International and European Non-Discrimination and Equality Law. She regularly writes articles for legal reviews. She participates in different work groups and holds public conferences on discrimination at European level. With the support of GMF and Robert Bosh Stiftung, she organized a Symposium on Religious Discrimination around Europe in September 2011. The hearings of this Conference should be available soon.

Her recent publications:

The capacity of Europe to accommodate other cultures: the Demonization of Interculturalism“, Proceedings of the Symposium on Interculturalism (Montreal, 25-27 May 2011)
Contribution of non-discrimination law and secularism to the protection of religious pluralism. The French experience, Proceedings of the Workshop entitled Religious Diversity and Public Policies (Bilbao, Feb. 2011), Anuario de derechos humanos y acción humanitaria/Yearbook on human rights and humanitarian action, 2011, Special edition
Council of Europe, Methodological Guide. Intercultural Competences in social services for constructing an inclusive institutional culture, Strasburg, Council of Europe Publishing, (F. Ast has contributed to its drafting)

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Elif Selen Ay works for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as a legal officer in the Ankara and Nicosia branch offices. She pursued her master’s degree in international human rights law at the University of Essex and earned her law degree from the Ankara University Faculty of Law. She worked for three years in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a legal adviser.

Selected current work projects include:
Projects related to the self-reliance of refugees and asylum seekers, non-refoulment and preparing a manual for the
municipalities in Marmara region to raise awareness on the importance of supporting refugees economically and socially in the region.

Rana Aydin is currently working on her Ph.D thesis dealing with civic participation at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI) in Germany. Previously, she worked as a parliamantary advisor to Cem Özemdir, a then member of the European Parliamant and current leader of the German Green Party. Ms. Aydin also worked as a project manager for one the the largest private foundations in Germany. She was repsonsiblee for the thematic cluster, integration, and the regional area of focus, Turkey. She holds a master’s degree in political science form the Freie Universität Berlin.

Selected current work projects include:
Voluntary mentoring program for “DeutschPlus”
Workshop series in order to increase diversity in local politics
Studying and supporting a turkish-speaking envirionmental group in Germany

Lt. Colonel Giuseppe Battaglia is Assistant Defense and Defense Cooperation Attaché at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC. Previously a professor at LUISS University, Rome, he served as deputy head of the Operational Room at Carabinieri General Headquarters from 2002 to 2010 and Company Commander from 1998 to 2002 in Sicily, and his work focused primarily upon the small Mediterranean island of Pantelleria in the Sicilian Channel, a destination point of thousands of migrants from Africa. In the Carabinieri headquarters, he served in the Organized Crime Office and then in the International Cooperation Office, both tasked with developing international cooperation between Carabinieri corps in police, military, and bilateral fields. From September 2010 to 2013 he will be assigned to the Embassy of Italy in the United States (Washington, DC) as deputy military attaché. He joined The German Marshall Fund of the United States as an European fellow in 2008 and is also a junior fellow of the Aspen Institute Italia and a member of the International Affairs Institute in Rome.

Carsten Behrendt is a staff reporter for ZDF German television in Berlin. He reports on all issues in the German capital, and has developed a special focus on youth, education and migration. Mr. Behrendt reported on the Millenium Development Goals in his documentary, Mission 2015, which recently won a World Bronze Medal at the New York Television and Film Festival. Mr. Behrendt also reported on U.S. president Barack Obama’s inauguration, and on the effects of the economic crisis on ordinary people. His story on a German father’s struggle to get to get his family savings back from a bankrupt Icelandic bank received the CNN Journalist Award this year.

Mr. Behrendt holds a master’s degree in communications from Berlin’s University of Fine Arts and has attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg.

Selected current work projects include:
24 Stunden Südafrika, a real time documentary on South Africa, which will run for a full 24 hours on ZDF Television.

Kustaw Bessems is a columnist and commentator. He specializes in politics, integration issues and individual liberties. He has also published on intelligence and counterterrorism and is a keen U.S. watcher. He traveled there, among other occasions, with the Marshall Memorial Fellowship granted by GMF.

Mr. Bessems is a historian by training and he has published two books, his latest in 2006 on Dutch multicultural society in the post 9/11 era. Mr. Bessems has received several Dutch awards. He is a frequent commentator for TV and radio and an experienced moderator.

Selected current work projects include:
9 ways to better politics, a book due in September
What I Chose, a web based video project on migrants’ individual choices (and a TFMI spin off)
Goed Gedrag, a monthly theatrical talkshow for live audience in Amsterdam featuring Holland’s top politicians and other prominent figures

Bhanu Bhatnagar is a TV news producer working for Aljazeera English News Channel, based at the network’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar. He’s been with the award-winning channel since before it launched in 2006, having worked at the London and Kuala Lumpur news centres.

Before pursuing a career in television journalism Bhanu worked for the Swedish International Development Agency, where he evaluated proposals for development assistance for projects involving culture and media. He also used to work for the British Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Bhanu is interested in world affairs and politics, how the decisions of a few affect the lives of the many and fascinated by how migration fundamentally changes societies and the people in them.
Bhanu holds a Masters degree in media and communications from the London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree in Arts Management. He speaks English, Swedish, Hindi and Spanish.

Todd F. Braunstein has joined WilmerHale as a counsel in the Litigation/Controversy Department and member of the Investigations and Criminal Litigation Practice. He previously served as an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA), White House advisor, Senate lawyer and private litigator.

As an AUSA in the Economic Crimes Unit of the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Braunstein investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal crimes, including health care fraud and other health care-related crimes; bribery and kickbacks in programs receiving federal funds; obstruction of federal auditors; embezzlement of labor union assets; wire fraud and mail fraud schemes; narcotics trafficking; and violent crime. Highlights of his tenure include the conviction, following a jury trial, of a police officer who provided information to a drug trafficker about undercover law enforcement operations. Braunstein also investigated and prosecuted health insurance executives accused of engaging in a sprawling scheme to defraud numerous other health insurance companies.

Before joining the US Attorney’s Office, Braunstein worked in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. There, he served as the principal day-to-day White House policy advisor on a wide range of legal policy issues, with a focus on crime, immigration and civil litigation. He briefed the President, Chief of Staff and other top White House officials on key issues, and worked with leadership in the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Labor, Commerce, and Health and Human Services. Braunstein also served as Counsel for Crime and Terrorism to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his service in the White House and Senate, Braunstein developed expertise in areas such as immigration, the USA Patriot Act and other national security issues, the False Claims Act, and employment discrimination.

Braunstein began his career as a litigation associate at another law firm in Washington DC, where he represented clients in investigations conducted by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and committees in both houses of Congress.

Braunstein received his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was commentaries chair of the Harvard Law Review. He received a BA in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, where he was president of The Harvard Crimson.

Selected current work projects include:
Prosecutions and long-term investigations of narcotics trafficking organizations, including several that import narcotics from Mexico and Caribbean nations.

Micah Bump serves as an attorney advisor at the Office of the General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where he focuses on immigration issues. Prior to joining the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Bump was an attorney with the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 2003-2009, Mr. Bump was a research associate at the Institute for the Study of International Migration of Georgetown University and associate editor of the journal International Migration.

Mr. Bump holds a bachelor’s degree in languages, a master’s degree in Latin American Studies and a Juris Doctorate, with a certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies, from Georgetown University.

Pawel Busiakiewicz is a policy officer in the External Aspects of Migration and Visa Policy Unit of the European Commission’s DG Justice, Freedom and Security, where he deals with the negotiation of international agreements between the EU Commission and third countries in the area of migration, with a focus on migration clauses and readmission. Mr. Busiakiewicz is also involved in various other EU Commission processes with third countries, including global approach to migration, mobility partnerships with Moldova and Cape Verde, and visa free dialogue with Western Balkan countries.

Mr. Busiakiewicz holds a law degree from Wroclaw University (Poland), a certificate in European, international, and comparative Law from Schuman University in Strasbourg (France), and a master’s degree in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium).

Selected current work projects include:
Negotiations of readmission and migration related agreements between the EC and third countries (in particular Morocco, Algeria).
Monitoring of application of the above instruments in cooperation with the respective third country (in particular Russia, Moldova, FYROM, Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Policy development of instruments aiming at improving management of migration flows (so called mobility partnerships with Moldova and Cape Verde).
Evaluation of migration policy of countries participating in the Visa free dialogue with the EC (in particular, Western Balkan countries).
EU-Russia relations on migration related matters.

Ana Maria Carrillo is currently the economic affairs and Mexican talent network director at the Institute for Mexicans Abroad in Mexico City. She has been a diplomat member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1999. She has served in different positions at the Foreign Affairs Ministry but has been directly involved with migratory issues since 2004, when she was transferred to work with the Mexican communities in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, while being posted at the Consulate General of Mexico in Atlanta. Ms. Carrillo holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and holds a master’s degree in diplomatic studies from the Matias Romero Institute. Before being accepted to the Foreign Service, Ms. Carrillo worked at the Mexican Senate at the Foreign Affairs Commission.

Selected current work projects include:
The Mexican Talent Network, a project intended to take advantage of the knowledge, experience, contacts, and access to opportunities that highly-qualified migrants have, in order to contribute to the development of their country of origin.
The design of strategies to promote bancarization and access to financial services for Mexican migrants in the United States.
The development of a cooperation program funded by the Inter-American Development Bank through the Multilateral Development Fund to promote financial education for Mexican migrants and their families in Mexico.

Shareefa is currently Resilience Team Leader for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in Malawi. She is responsible for managing DFID’s agriculture, water and sanitation, climate change and humanitarian aid programmes in Malawi. Shareefa was formerly Head of Communications, Africa Division, DFID; and Communities Engagement Manager in the Preventing Extremism Unit in the UK Department for Communities and Local Government. Before joining the UK civil service, she was the Director of Muslim Youth Helpline, a counseling service for Muslim youth in the United Kingdom. 

Selected current work projects include:
Trustee for the Muslim Youth Helpline, a faith and culturally sensitive peer support service for young Muslims in the UK.
Advisor on the London Steering Group for the Prince of Wales’ MOSAIC project.
Advisor to the Berakah project, a world music ensemble featuring musicians from Muslim, Jewish, and Christian
backgrounds, which aims to use music to bring people together in the spirit of peace.

Tufyal Choudhury is senior policy advisor to the OSI’s At Home in Europe project and author of the report, “At Home in Europe ? Muslims in Europe: an overview of 11 EU Cities,” published in December 2009. He is also a lecturer in law the University of Durham and a research associate at the University of Oxford Centre on Migration Policy and Society. His research and publications cover the areas of racial and religious discrimination, integration, human rights, and counter terrorism, contributing to advancing both academic and public policy debates. Mr. Choudhury is also a trustee with Democratic Audit and Muslim Youth Helpline. He is a graduate of the universities of London and Cambridge, and was called to the Bar at Inner Temple.

Selected current work projects include:
Leading research commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission examining the Impact of counterterorrism laws on Muslim communities in the United Kingdom.
Senior policy advisor to the Open Society Institute’s At Home in Europe Project, which looked at integration and social cohesion in EU cities.
Co-editing a report by the Centre for European Policy Stuidies examining models of Muslim integration in Europe.

Meredith Cipriano is the manager of government relations for the global financial services company, Western Union. Ms. Cipriano is responsible for developing and executing public policy programs in the United States, Europe, and Asia that support Western Union’s business objectives. She serves as an advocate for Western Union, its consumers, agents, and employees before policymakers and policy influencers worldwide. In this role, Ms. Cipriano develops public policy positions on issues of specific interest to Western Union, including global migration and financial services regulation. She received her Bachelor of Science from Shepherd College, and her Master of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

Selected current work projects include:
Preventing U.S. state legislatures from imposing taxes and fees on remittances.
Advocating for comprehensive immigration reform before the U.S. Congress and other federal policymakers.
Coordinating Western Union’s Transatlantic Event Series, a program designed to foster transatlantic dialogue on issues of immigration and financial services between U.S. and EU policymakers.

Alexandre Colombani is general manager of LUCI (Lighting Urban Community International), an international network of cities on urban lighting and sustainable development, created by the City of Lyon. Before becoming the head of this organization, Mr. Colombani was chief of staff of the Mayor’s office in the 9th District of the City of Lyon. In this position, he dealt with issues linked to the arrival of migrant populations in Lyon (status regarding national law and immigration procedures, housing, employment).

He was also involved in bringing to fruition one of the most ambitious urban regeneration projects in the country, namely the establishment of a Grand Projet de Ville (Great Urban Project) to fight severe social and economic decline in a quarter of the district. Previously, Mr. Colombani worked for the Mayor of Chambery, former Housing Minister of France, and was specifically involved in housing and urban safety issues. He holds a master’s degree in regional and urban planning from the London School of Economics and a degree in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politique in Lille.

Sabine Craenen recently started working as head of services on integration and return at Flemish Refugee Action
(Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen), a Belgian umbrella organization defending rights of asylum seekers and refugees. She coordinates a team conducting projects on higher education and access to highly qualified jobs for refugees and refugee artists, information on countries of origin for asylum seekers and people interested in voluntary return, and alternative policies for forced return and detention. Until April 2010 she was coordinator of the Organization for Undocumented Workers (OR.C.A.) in Brussels, a position she held for five years. She has also worked for several NGOs active on development issues. Ms. Craenen holds a master’s degree in Arabic languages from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

Selected current work projects and activities include:
Board member of OR.C.A.
Projects on integration of refugees, mainly on access to higher education and highly qualified jobs.
Projects on country of origin information and alternatives for forced return and detention.

León de la Torre Krais is a career diplomat who has been with the Constitutional Court since 2005, where he is head of the cabinet of the president. In his current work he follows the steep increase in individual constitutional complaints presented by immigrants or linked to migration, which accounts for up to 35 percent of total numbers in 2008. Another field of special interest is the possible revision by Constitutional Courts of recently approved European harmonization rules concerning migration. Positions abroad include consul in Quito, Ecuador (1996-1999), consul and first secretary (political affairs) Beijing, China (1999-2001), and cultural and cooperation counselor in Santiago, Chile (2001-2005). In 2006, Mr. de la Torre was briefly posted in Cape Verde, South Africa, where he was responsible for the opening of the Spanish Embassy in Praia and work on the Africa Plan (a project directly linked to migration). He holds a bachelor’s degree in law and business from ICADE in Madrid.

Korvi Rakshand Dhrubo is the founding member and chairperson of the JAAGO Foundation. The JAAGO Foundation is a civil society organization dedicated to the betterment of underprivileged and poverty-stricken communities of Bangladesh. This youth led movement focuses mainly on battling illiteracy and malnutrition in children and on rehabilitating them to better environments and social conditions. JAAGO aims to provide long-term and sustainable benefits to children who are living below the poverty line. As the head of the organization, Mr. Rakshand coordinates the major administrative departments, oversees decision making processes within the organization and is responsible for the majors projects set up by the JAAGO Foundation.
Mr. Rakshand completed his ‘O’ Levels in 2003, obtained a Diploma in Law from the University of London (2004-2005) and a subsequent L.L.B. Honors (2005-2007).

Selected current projects include:
A free of cost English Medium School that aims to provide international standard education to children from disadvantaged families
“Healthy Living”, “First Aid Centre”, “Call for Hygiene” providing nutritious meals, regular health checks and hygiene products to students
Sewing Centre”, a women’s empowerment project creating employment opportunities for local women.

Dr. Maciej Duszczyk is deputy director at the Warsaw University Institute of Social Policy, Department of Journalism and Political Sciences, where he is responsible for research programs and teaches courses on the social and economic implications of migration and migration’s impact on the labor markets of sending and receiving countries. He is also coordinator of a research project on immigration policy financed by EU structural funds that determines immigration policy recommendations for the Polish government.

Dr. Duszczyk is also a member of the Board of Strategic Advisers to the Prime Minister of Poland, where he focuses on the issue of return migration to Poland, and a member of the Board of Centre of Migration Research, Warsaw University. He received his PhD in political science from the Institute of Social Policy, Warsaw University for his thesis, “Free Movement of Workers in Connection with Poland’s Accession to the European Union.” During the negotiations on Polish membership in the European Union, he was an adviser to the chief of negotiators, Jan Ku³akowski. He was also employed as deputy director in Department of Economic and Social Analyses in the Polish Ministry of European Affairs. He received scholarships granted by the Jean Monnet Project, Carl Duisburg Gesellschaft, and the Polish Committee for Scientific Research.

Selected current work projects include:
The socioeconomic consequences of foreign student’s immigration to Poland.
The integration of foreigners in Poland.
Immigration to Poland in the context of labor market needs.

Brahim El Mouaatamid is a research assistant with The ACP Observatory on Migration. He previously served as research assistant at the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM), where he was in charge of the demographic and economic modules from June 2006 to September 2009. At CARIM, he contributed to the development of the Mediterranean migration database, the coordination of the project network and the elaboration of the research programs related to migration in the southern and eastern Mediterranean countries. Prior to joining CARIM, Mr. El Mouaatamid worked at the Demographic Research Center of Morocco (1999-2006), where he contributed to the conduction of empirical research activities in the field of Moroccan demography and migration from a sending country perspective. His research activities range from field surveys and methodologies to essays on demographic change, migrants’ integration, and the link between migration and poverty reduction. Mr. El Mouaatamid holds a degree in statistics and demography from the Institute of Statistics of Rabat.

Currently, Mr. El Mouaatamid is broadly interested in migration demographic, social, and political causes and impacts on sending countries, with a special focus on North Africa and the Middle East.

Suzi Emmerling is Senior Communications Officer at the Apollo Alliance. Previously, she worked as a press aide at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive policy think tank in Washington, DC. Working through various communications mediums, she developed media strategies with the immigration, energy, national security, education policy, and lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender issues teams to drive news on their studies, reports, and writings. Ms. Emmerling also served on CAP’s communications team as special events coordinator, and provided research for the center’s immigrant integration studies, including the report “Learning From Each Other: The Integration of Immigrant and Minority Groups in the United States and Europe.” She came to American Progress from Envision, EMI, and Congressional Youth Leadership Council, where she developed leadership and civics conferences across the United States. She has a Bachelor of the Arts degrees in French and political science from the University of California-Los Angeles. She has also earned a certificate in political science studies from the Sciences Po-Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France.

Suzi’s current work with the immigration team at American Progress focuses on:
Supporting the passage of a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
Responding to various immigration-related issues as they arise, such as Arizona’s recently passed immigration law.

Julian Escutia-Rodriguez is a Regional Affairs Officer at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC. He is a career diplomat posted to the Consulate General of Mexico in Houston, where he was the consul for community and economic affairs. He was in charge of designing and implementing programs for Mexican migrants living in the Houston area. His main areas of work are education, health, and community organization. He has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from El Colegio de México, and a master’s degree in public policy from the University Victoria of Wellington, New Zealand.

Selected current work projects include:
Health issues: Health Directory for Hispanic Migrants; Binational Health Week 2010.
Education issues: Adult education program for migrants (Plazas Comunitarias); financial education week and mini fairs.
Community organization: Workshop for Mexican and Mexican-American Emerging Leaders; talent network; basic business training for hometown association leaders.

Jill Marie Gerschutz is a former immigration policy director and outreach coordinator in the Office of Social and International Ministries at the Jesuit Conference, USA. She represented the Society of Jesus in governmental relations regarding immigration policy; as the core member of the Church’s Justice for Immigrants campaign; and with various other Jesuit migration networks. Ms. Gerschutz previously worked at the International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies, Casa Alianza (Covenant House Latin America), and as a bilingual social worker in rural North Carolina. She earned a master’s degree in international peace and conflict resolution from American University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton. Ms. Gerschutz is co-editor and contributing author of the forthcoming And You Welcomed Me: Migration and Catholic Social Teaching (Lexington 2009). She has authored various articles and lectures about immigration reform and Catholic teaching.

Selected current work projects include:
“Integration Yesterday and Today: New Challenges for the United States and the Church” with Lois Ann Lorentzen, in And You Welcomed Me: Migration and Catholic Social Teaching, eds. Donald Kerwin and Jill Marie Gerschutz (Lanham, MD: Lexington 2009).
Lobbying and public representation of the Society of Jesus regarding comprehensive immigration reform, including organizing of Jesuit colleges and universities.
Liaison with Jesuit institutions nationally and internationally, including the Jesuit Migration Service Central America-North America; the Cristo Rey Network of schools, which provide private-school education and work experience to urban youth, including many migrants; the Jesuit Hispanic Ministry Conference; the Kino Border Initiative; and many others.

Felisa Gonzales is a former Research Assistant for the Pew Hispanic Center. Her responsibilities included data analysis and presentation, responding to inquiries for information, and providing administrative support to senior researchers. Prior to joining Pew Hispanic Center, Ms. Gonzales worked as a Research Associate at OMNI Institute where she evaluated programs, including the development of community-based tobacco cessation programs targeting Latinos and Asian Americans, water supply systems in Honduras and a metro-Denver inclusiveness program. Felisa has a Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience, a certificate in International Affairs and a minor in Spanish from The Colorado College.

Ana Gonzalez-Barrera is a Research Associate at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC, where she conducts public opinion research and statistical analysis on demographic and economic trends of the foreign born and Hispanic populations in the United States. Before joining the PRC in October 2011, she served as Director for Population Distribution and Development at the Mexican Population Council where she oversaw the publication of the 2010 Marginalization Index and the new delimitation of Metropolitan Areas in Mexico. Prior to this, she worked as an Associate Professor and Researcher of the Division of International Studies at CIDE in Mexico, where she functioned as executive secretary and regional coordinator of the Americas and the World project, a regional public opinion survey on international issues fielded every two years in several countries of Latin America. She was awarded a Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship in 2006-2008. Since 2005 she is also an Associate of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Gonzalez-Barrera holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, and a master?s degree in public policy from the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.

Selected current work projects include:
Analyzing social and demographic trends of the foreign born and Hispanic population in the U.S.
Conducting research on Mexican immigrants to the United States, using Mexican and U.S. survey data from 1995 to 2011.
Analyzing U.S. immigration enforcement statistics, with particular focus on Mexican immigrants.
Collaborating in the development of the 2012 National Survey of Latinos, and the 2012 Pew Global Attitudes’ Mexico survey.

Lin Gu is a freelance journalist based in Beijing. Mr. Gu has freelanced for a variety of media including the BBC, the South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera International, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Irish Public Radio, the Lonely Planet and the Bangkok Post, and has covered topics ranging from social migration, environmental protection and HIV/AIDS to the Chinese cultural identity in a globalized world and China’s emerging civil society. Mr. Gu has worked for the Xinhua News Agency as a feature writer and was the managing editor of the China Central Television (CCTV) talk show Us.Furthermore, he is a frequent commentator on BBC, Al Jazeera International and CCTV, and has been a researcher for BBC/PBS TV documentary series “China from the Inside” and other radio documentaries. Furthermore, Mr. Gu is a media trainer for workshops sponsored by the UN, Internews, Marie Stopes International and USAID on how to cover AIDS and environmental issues.

Mr. Gu holds a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the Shanghai International Studies University and a master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University. Mr. Gu was also a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Suzanne Hafidi-Gevers is a senior policy official at the Department of Citizenship and Integration at the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Integration. As a project manager she is in charge of Dutch policies on marriage migration and civic integration tests abroad. Recently she has worked with the Minister of Integration and the Minister of Justice on formulating the new policy schemes on marriage and family migration. In 2010 she was selected to participate in the Management Development Program of her ministry. Prior to her work at the Ministry, Mrs. Hafidi-Gevers worked at the Municipality of Utrecht, where she coached new immigrants during their integration process and developed the local policy framework for 2007-2011. She holds master’s degrees in cultural anthropology and gender studies from the University of Nijmegen. After obtaining her degrees, she specialized in public management by means of several post-master modules.

Selected current work projects include:
Project manager of the new Dutch policy scheme on marriage and family migration.
Advisor on the integration policies for migrants of Middle- and East European background.
Participating in the Management Development Program of the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Integration.

Debora Guidetti joined Open Society Institute-Brussels as a Program Officer in October 2011. She is responsible for the Open Society Foundations’ program addressing the causes and manifestations of xenophobia and intolerance in Western Europe. Before joining the Open Society Foundations, Guidetti managed the European Programme on Integration and Migration (EPIM), a grant-making initiative of the Network of European Foundations for more than three years. She has previous experience with the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean based in Cuba where she worked on HIV/AIDS prevention and stigma reduction and on indigenous audio-visual industry; and she has worked with Handicap International in Belgium. Beyond various experiences in the voluntary sector during her studies, she served as assistant with the UNESCO office in Mexico, the European Commission, a local diaspora NGO in Ghana and an integration centre for migrant women in Brussels. In 2011, she joined the Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration. Guidetti studied international relations, political sciences, culture and development studies, in Italy (Padua), France (Sciences-Po Paris), and Belgium (University of Leuven).

Blanche Guillemot is deputy director general in the French public agency for social cohesion and equal opportunities. This agency was created after the urban riots of November 2005. She is responsible for managing over 300 staff members, charged with enforcing migrant integration policies and combating ethnic discrimination, especially in poor urban areas. Ms. Guillemot started her professional career in the French Ministry for Social Affairs, where she worked notably on asylum policy and medical assistance for immigrants. She is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration and holds a master’s degree in political science from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris.

Selected current work projects include:
Development of dedicated programs to promote diversity in the media and in the public sector.
Development of dedicated programs to open an equal access to high-level universities for people coming from poor urban areas.
Development of dedicated programs to give a “second chance” to young low-qualified unemployed people.

Adam Hunter is Senior Advisor to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security. In this capacity he advises, supports, and represents the Director on immigration policy matters and coordinates agency-wide priorities across communications, strategic planning, management, and operations. Previously in the USCIS Office of Citizenship, Adam managed citizenship and immigrant integration policy research, interagency initiatives, and international engagement. Prior to joining USCIS in 2007, Adam led projects at the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Center for American Progress in Washington, DC on issues related to national security and immigration. He previously worked in Berlin, Germany managing a nationwide election campaign for a candidate to the European Parliament and then in Brussels, Belgium coordinating the new member’s office and his foreign policy and justice and home affairs priorities. Adam started his career in Washington, DC, managing foreign policy grants and institutional relationships at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and additionally led study tours and conferences to promote transatlantic cooperation. Adam was awarded a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship in 2003-2004 and served as Board Member and past President of the Robert Bosch Foundation Alumni Association (RBFAA). Since 2008 he is both a Truman Security Fellow and Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration (TFMI) Fellow. He is also a participant of the American Council on Germany-Draeger Foundation Young Leaders’ Study Group on the Future of Europe. Adam graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in German and European Studies and holds a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He speaks German and French.

Selected current work projects include:
Exploring partnership and opportunities to improve access to immigration services
Implementing initiatives to more fully realize the potential of immigration for economic growth
Fostering research and data tools to support immigration policy and decision-making

Vanya Ivanova is a researcher and project assistant at the New Bulgarian University’s Center for European Refugees, Migration and Ethnic Studies (CERMES), where she is conducting her PhD research in the field of policies of return after forced and voluntary migration. In addition Ms Ivanova is assisting assoc. prof. Anna Krasteva in several university courses. Ms Ivanova has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Sofia and Master’s degree in diplomacy and international relations from the New Bulgarian University.

Selected current work projects include:
An article by Vanya Ivanova on Internally displaced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina discussing policy developments in managing displacement waves was published in Krasteva A., A. Kasabova, D. Karabinova (eds.) Migrations from/to Southeastern Europe. 2010: Ravena, Longo editore. 
A current project CERMES develops in collaboration with five other partners is Migrapass project – proposing a portfolio and a companion – to allow migrants express their experience, value their competences to enter the labour market and/or improve their professional career. It is based upon knowledge and competences acquired by migrants thanks to their professional (previous employments), social (voluntary involvements such as in association, trade unions or political parties) and personal (expatriation past) pathways. Learn more at: www.migrapass.net|

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Pawe³ Kaczmarczyk is Vice-Director of the Centre of Migration Research and Director of the Center of Eastern European Economic Research Centre at the University of Warsaw. In addition Mr. Kaczmarczyk is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw (Chair for Demography). Since 2008, Mr. Kaczmarczyk is also a member of the Board of Strategic Advisers to the Prime Minister of Poland where he provides expertise on subjects linked to demography, the labor market, mobility and migration, as well as the welfare system. Mr. Kaczmarczyk’s main research areas include the causes and consequences of labor migration, particularly in CEE countries, highly skilled mobility, labor economics, international economics and migration policy.

Mr. Kaczmarczyk holds a MSc in Economics from the University of Warsaw, where he also completed a PhD in Economics on the “Causes of international migration from Poland”.

Rajiv Khandelwal is the executive director of Aajeevika Bureau, headquartered in Udaipur, Rajasthan, western India, a new generation public initiative that provides services, solutions, and social security to rural migrant workers and their communities. Mr. Khandelwal founded the Aajeevika Bureau in 2004 after 15 years of rural development practice and research experience in India and East Africa. Under his leadership, the Aajeevika Bureau has become well known as the first attempt in India to focus on the problems and solutions for India’s millions of internal migrants. The Bureau provides registration and identification, skill training and job placement, legal aid, financial services, and health and food options for seasonal rural migrants who enter urban markets and work in hazardous low-end sectors of the economy. He holds a degree in rural management from India’s prestigious Institute of Rural Management, and has written and published extensively on issues of rural livelihood and change. In 2005 he was nominated as an Ashoka Fellow in recognition of the innovative ideas underlying the Aajeevika Bureau.

Selected current work projects include:
Setting up a legal aid and counseling cell for interstate migrant workers who report violations of minimum wages and fair workplace conditions.
Developing a worker managed cheap food solution in a large destination for migrant construction workers.
Expanding migration services through the creation of a network of civil society organizations from high out-migration states of India.

Karen Krüger is an editor of the Sunday Edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung based in Berlin. Her main topics include the integration of Turkish people in Germany, Turkey, Islam, and media politics. Ms. Krüger holds a master’s degree in history, French, and sociology from the University of Bielefeld. From April 2005-March 2006, she was a research fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre 640 Changing Representations of Social Order – Intercultural and intertemporal comparisonsat Humboldt University, Berlin. Ms Krüger is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the Rwandan Genocide at University of Bielefeld/Humboldt University, Berlin.

Mehmet Ali Kucukcavus is a consultant to the recently established Asylum and Migration Bureau under the Ministry of Interior, which is responsible for drafting the new asylum law and the Law on Foreigners. Mr. Kucukcavus has been part of the unit since its inception, and his extensive knowledge of international standards, EU aquis and judgments, international human rights court judgments and mechanisms, and Turkish law expertise have contributed greatly to the draft asylum law. Mr. Kucukcavus also works as an expert at the Prime Ministry General Directorate of Social Assistance and Solidarity. Before joining the civil service, he worked in several multinational projects as individual consultant and research assistant. He holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University.

Hanna-Maija Kuhn is working as a senior consultant at Ramboll Management Consulting’s Department for EU affairs in Copenhagen, where she is participating as a core team member in international evaluations and studies, with a special focus on the European Commission and the European Parliament. Hanna-Maija is specialised in field of migration, integration and asylum, where she has gained experience in conducting evaluations and studies both on the national level and for the EU institutions, in particular for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Home Affairs.

Ms. Kuhn is a certified Ramboll Management Evaluator. She holds an MA in Romance Philology, European Studies and Political Science from Abo Akademi University in Finland, and an MSc in European studies from Aalborg University, Denmark.

Selected current work projects include:
Study on the requirements specific to minors travelling alone or accompanied, legally entering or leaving the Member States/Associated countries (for European Commission, DG Home Affairs)
Study on the feasibility and legal and practical implications of establishing a mechanism for the joint processing of asylum applications on the territory of the EU (for European Commission, DG Home Affairs)
External evaluation of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Juan Carlos Lara-Armienta is currently Head of Section for regional affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in the United States, where he is responsible for migration issues and policy coordination between the Embassy and the Mexican consular network (50 consulates) in the United States. Previously, he was the deputy director general for consular protection at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005-2007). From this position, he oversaw a wide array of consular assistance services and programs delivered worldwide. He served at Mexico’s Consulates General in New Orleans (1999-2001) and Atlanta (2002-2005), as deputy consul general and consul for legal affairs, respectively. At both postings, he developed and implemented outreach strategies and programs aimed at Mexican immigrant communities of recent arrival to the U.S. Southeast. Mr. Lara-Armienta holds a law degree from Universidad Panamericana, a master’s degree in diplomatic studies from Mexico’s Diplomatic Institute Matias Romero, and completed a graduate program in American legal studies at the University of New Mexico.

Selected current work projects include:
Monitoring local and state measures that intend to regulate immigration and developing and implementing consular assistance programs and initiatives to protect the rights of Mexican nationals under those jurisdictions.
Follow up of migration consultation mechanisms between the Embassy of Mexico and U.S. federal agencies, including bilateral initiatives implemented by the U.S.-Mexico Repatriation Technichal Working Group (RTWG).

Magdalena Lesińska  was awarded a PhD in Political Science in 2006 at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wrocław. Her PhD thesis was devoted to the comparative analysis of political inclusion of the immigrants in Western European countries. She also completed MA program in Nationalism Studies (Central European University, Budapest in 2002) and MA program in Political Science (University of Wrocław in 2001). In 2006-2008 she had a position of assistant professor at University of Wrocław in the Department of European Studies. Since 2008 she has been a Deputy Director in the CMR UW. Her present research interests focus on national and European migration policy as well as political rights and participation of immigrants. She co-edited several books, and is and author of dozen or so articles and working papers, among them analyses of migration policy of Poland and other CEE countries, and political recommendations .

She is an expert in the Commission on Migrants established by Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Poland, a Secretary of Committee of Migration Research of Polish Academy of Science, and a member of IMISCOE Research Network (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion).

Her present research interests focus on state and European migration policy, borders, political rights, and immigrant
participation, especially in the case of irregular migrants.

Selected current work projects include:
Conducting international research on politization of migration in Europe.
Coordinating of European Website of Integration (http://ec.europa.eu/ewsi/en/index.cfm) as a country coordinator.
Preparing political analyses and scientific articles on migration policy in Poland.

Xin Li is chief of the English desk at Caixin Media. She runs Caixin’s English-language website and publishes the electronic Caixin Weekly-China Economic & Finance magazine. Li Xin founded Caijing Magazine’s first Washington, DC bureau, where she was a politics and finance correspondent from June 2006 to June 2007. Before Caijing, she was a documentary producer at China Central Television, where two of her shows won nationwide competitions. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2002, and a master’s degree in journalism from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2006.

Selected current work projects include:
Foreign immigration to China and the China’s demographic change.
Traditional media’s opportunities in the mobile era.

Anna Ludwinek joined the Living Conditions and Quality of Life Unit of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions as a research officer in May 2008. Since joining the organization, Ms. Ludwinek has worked primarily on the European Cities Network CLIP (Cities for Local Integration Policies for Migrants) and issues surrounding Eastern European mobility and its social and labor market impact for both sending and receiving countries. She is also currently managing a project with the International Organization for Migration on the labor integration of low-and medium skilled migrants. Prior to this, Ms. Ludwinek spent six years as a public affairs executive for Eucomed, a European association representing the interests of the medical technology industry. She was responsible for the management of Governmental affairs, and the liaison with European and international institutions as well as healthcare organizations and national level policy-makers. 

Ms. Ludwinek is a member of the Steering Committee of the County Dun Laghaoire in Ireland and is responsible for the preparation of the local Integration and Diversity Programmes. She is also a Polish correspondent for the European Industrial Relations monthly magazine reporting on Polish developments in the area of social and employment policy. 

Ms. Ludwinek holds a master’s degree in Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Melchior Wankowicz University of Journalism in Warsaw and the Kochanowskiego University respectively.

Ms Ludwinek is currently compleing a master’s of Social Applied Research at Trinity College, Dublin.

Merliza M. Makinano graduated with a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University in 2011. Prior to her graduate studies, Ms. Makinano served as a Senior Officer at ASEAN. She was also a columnist tackling the issues, challenges and opportunities in overseas employment. Previously, she was Deputy Executive Director, Institute for Labor Studies, in the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment. She has served at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as a Program Officer handling the project on capacity building for the vulnerable migrant workers in Asia. She was also Consultant on Strategic Matters at the Philippine Department of National Defense, the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime as Consultant for Research and consultancies with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the International Organization for Migration on overseas employment. She holds a Master in International Relations degree from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of the Philippines, and diploma on Oceans Law and Policy from Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy (Greece). Ms. Makinano has written a book on child soldiers in the Philippines, and monographs on national security issues, such as terrorism, maritime disputes, and drug trafficking.

Nicolás Marugán became director of the Spanish Monitoring Center for Racism and Xenophobia, Spanish national liaison officer for the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA), as well as Spanish representative for the network of National Contact Points on Integration in 2009. The monitoring center develops studies and surveys on racism and xenophobia, organizes training modules for public officials, promotes equal treatment and raises awareness for professionals from the police, media, teachers, NGOs, migrant associations and local and regional governments. Between 2004 and 2009 Mr. Marugán worked as an assistant to the General Director of Labor of the Regional Government of Madrid, and was the secretary of the Executive Committee of the National Institute of Employment in the province of Madrid. Mr. Marugán had previously worked at the Housing Institute of Madrid.

Mr. Marugán holds a degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and a master’s degree in International Aid and Migrations from the Carlos III University of Madrid.

Wolfgang A. Maschek joined Western Union in 2006 and is currently Senior Counsel and Vice-President for International Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Maschek leads Western Union’s European regulatory program. His work focuses on identifying and influencing international regulatory trends in the European Union (EU) and beyond. Mr. Maschek designs regulatory strategies and solutions to support Western Union’s core remittance products, as well as its pre-paid, electronic, online and mobile retail payments product lines. He advocates on behalf of Western Union and holds relationships with key regulatory, supervisory and legislative authorities internationally.
Prior to 2006, Mr. Maschek was Deputy Head of the EU Representative Office of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB – Central Bank of Austria), where he analyzed, and advised the OeNB Executive Board on regulatory and institutional developments of EU financial services. In 2005, he was seconded to the European Commission to work in the EC’s Financial Services Policy department.

Mr. Maschek has authored articles on money remittance regulation and EU financial services regulation and recently co-edited a book on foreign direct investments. Mr. Maschek holds a master’s degree in Law from the University of Vienna, a master’s degree in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and a LL.M. Master of Law from Columbia University School of Law in New York. In 2010 Mr. Maschek was admitted to the Bar of New York.

Patrick McEvenue is a senior policy adviser working for the Integration Branch of Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Since joining in 2006, he has led the Branch’s work in the area of language training policy and has been a significant contributor to the development of the department’s modernized approach to settlement and integration. Prior to joining the branch, Mr. McEvenue served as a visa officer at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, China. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Concordia University and common and civil law degrees from McGill University’s Faculty of Law.

Current work projects include:
Canadian representative at the Council of Europe’s Intergovernmental Conference on “The Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants.”
Project lead on the development of a national language test for use in Canada’s integration and citizenship Project lead on the introduction of portfolio-based language assessment within Canada’s federal language training program.

Ms. Liu Ming has been working with Save the Children in China since 2005. As a senior advocacy officer, she acts as the Cross-border Anti-trafficking Project China communications focal point. Her role includes developing and implementing the communications strategy for the China office and liaison with Bangkok based regional communication focal person; coordinating technical support for the cross-border anti-trafficking project based on the needs of field project teams; developing and maintaining contact with relevant government agencies and NGOs working on anti-trafficking of children and women in China.

From 2009-2010, Ms. Liu Ming studied in Sussex University in UK and gained a MA in International Education and Development. Before joining Save the Children in China, she was a university English teacher for 3 years and a manager in learning resource development center for an on-line education institute for 3 years.

Zafer Mese is senior manager for business development and investment in the Turkish TAV Airports Holding Co. with headquarters in Istanbul, where he is responsible for the European aviation market. Previously, he managed European and governmental affairs for Frankfurt Airport Company Fraport AG for seven years. Prior to his work in the private sector, he was foreign and security policy advisor to a German politician from the conservative Christian Democrat Party (CDU) in the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag). In this function, he was responsible for the Middle East, Islamic affairs, and transatlantic relations. Mr. Mese is initiator and speaker of the German-Turkish Union within the conservative Christian Democrat Party. In cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, he regularly coaches Turkish imams prior to their work for the German Islamic community. Mr. Mese holds master’s degrees in political science, Oriental studies, and political economy from the University of Bonn, and was enrolled in a graduate studies program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for an academic year.

Selected current work projects include:
Responsible for the relation to European Airlines (for scheduled and charter flights to the TAV-Airports in Eastern Europe, North-Africa, Middle East).
In charge of governmental affairs vis-a-vis European and national administration with regard to aviation policy.

Mekonnen Mesghena is policy analyst and head of the department “Migration & Diversity” in the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin, a think-tank affiliated with the German Green Party. Major policy areas are Governance of Migration, Citizenship, Social Mobility, Diversity, and Minorities’ Participation in Society and Politics.

Mekonnen Mesghena is a member of various Boards and NGOs across Europe – among others of the Board of Directors at the Migration Policy Group (Brussels) and member of the Equal Opportunity and Diversity Panel of the British Council in Germany. He is also a diversity trainer and organizational consultant. From 1995 until 2000, Mekonnen Mesghena coordinated the Foundation?s media policy activities. Having studied Journalism and History, Mekonnen has been freelance writing for various German and international broadcasting stations, weekly magazines and websites. He served as a speaker of the ”Third World Journalists’ Network” in Germany and co-founded the ”German Media Watch” in 1993. In 2006, Mekonnen co-initiated the international architectural exhibition “Asmara – Africa’s Secret Modernist City” which has been shown so far in Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, London, Tel-Aviv, Cairo, Lomé, Lagos, Turin, Bologna and Graz.

Merlys Mosquera Chamat started her career working with vulnerable teenagers in Caracas. In 2003 she went to work with Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) at the Colombian-Venezuelan border, where she helped to accompany immigrants and refugees and advocate for human rights for six years. Ms. Mosquera gained her degree in pedagogic sciences, and holds a master’s degree in learning processes education, a master’s degree in migration by specialist in research and social intervention, and a master’s degree in humanitarian action. Currently she is working as JRS’s sub-director of JRS in Latin America, supporting the management projects in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá, and Venezuela. She also teaches in a local university in Caracas and is a trainer in courses on gender based violence and the management of social projects.

Selected current work projects include:
Designer and manager of the project “Incorporating the Gender Approach in Jesuit Refugee Service-Latin America.”
Writer of a training notebook titled “Peace and Violence at the Colombian-Venezuelan border.”
Lecturer at “The Immigration Word Social Forum” (Quito, Ecuador, 2010) and “The International Meeting of Peace Builders” (Caracas, Venezuela, 2010).

Esther W. Muchira-Tirima is an associate professor in Education and the founding director of the Institute for Research, Development and Policy of the Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi. As director Ms. Muchira-Tirima supports, facilitates and coordinates the university’s research efforts. Prior to this Ms. Muchira-Tirima was the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Head of department of the Academic Writing Center at the Kenya Methodist University. In addition to her academic experience, Ms. Muchira-Tirima has worked as a consultant and motivational speaker on issues relating to education and employment.

Ms. Muchira-Tirima holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Washington State University and completed both a master’s degree in English as a Second Language and an Ed. D. in Adult Education at the University of Idaho.

Originally from Rwanda, he has been living in Ireland for over 16 years. He is currently working as Integration Manager at the Immigrant Council of Ireland (the ICI). He has been managing a number of integration projects and campaigns. In 2011 he ran the Count Us In campaign during the Irish general elections campaign. Before joining the ICI in 2002, he worked with Canal Communities Partnership and the African Cultural Project. He is a regular public speaker on issues pertaining to immigration and integration in Ireland, Europe and further afield. He was conferred a PhD in Sociology in December 2010 at University College Dublin. His doctoral thesis is titled: (New) Migrant Political Entrepreneurs: Overcoming Isolation and Exclusion through Creative Resistance in Ireland. He is a founding member of the Africa Centre. In October 2011, he won a special judges’ Metro Eireann’s Media and Multicultural Award.

Selected current work projects include:
Manager of Ambassadors for Change programme, a project aimed at training and deploying role models of migrant backgrounds to a number of secondary schools in Ireland. The project is funded by the Integration Office of Dublin City Council. 
Manager of a number of anti-racism programmes funded by a number of agencies including the Equality Authority, the Integration Office of Dublin City Council, Dublin Bus and Veolia Transport Dublin Light Rail Ltd. the main focus of these initiatives is to pro-actively engage on issues of racism and the implementation of recommendations of the report titled Taking Racism Seriously published by the Immigrant Council of Ireland’s Country Coordinator of the RED Network, an initiative co-funded by the European Union – Project Framework: Fundamental Rights and Citizenship ‘Actions Grants’, 2009-2010 / European Commission, DG Justice. The RED Network is an independent research network, composed of 17 research and civil society organisations in EU member states. Its aim is to report and document racist and hate crime and discrimination, as well as positive initiatives and policy responses. i-RED – the Institute for Rights, Equality and Diversity, which is based in Greece – is leading the RED Network.

Andreas Ollinen, LL.M., is a political adviser to the Swedish Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy. During his four years in the Minister’s cabinet, Mr. Ollinen has been responsible for advising on, inter alia, Swedish labour migration reform, circular migration and its links to development and the European Union asylum and migration policy, including its external dimension. He has also coordinated civil society consultations and overseen the Minister’s international engagements. Prior to assuming his current position as political adviser Mr. Ollinen served as an Associate Protection Officer with UNHCR in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has also worked at the UNHCR Offices in Quetta, Pakistan and Stockholm, Sweden, as well as at the Swedish Migration Board.

Selected current work projects include:
Further mobility reforms, facilitating spontaneous circular migration.
Further harmonisation of European Union asylum and migration policy and development of the EU global approach to migration.
Migration and development. Sweden will hold the presidency of the Global Forum on Migration and Development in 2013 – 2014.

Erdal Onat is a candidate career diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. He completed his preparation courses at the Ministry and was assigned to the Visa, Immigration, and Asylum Department of the Directorate of Consular Affairs. Within the context of his current position, he deals with visa, migration, and refugee related issues. Before working at the Ministry, he gained experience working at the Popular Bank of Turkey in the Foreign Trade Department. Mr. Onat is also engaged in the activities of the Turkish Hazelnut Promotion Group, which is a part of the Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade of Turkey. He has a master’s degree in international relations from the Middle East Technical University. The topic of his thesis is “Tension and Cooperation in Transatlantic Relations with regard to Iraq.”

Chinedu Onyejelem is the publisher of Ireland’s multicultural weekly, Metro Eireann. He is the author of News in Black and White, and holds a master’s degree in ethnic and racial studies from Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Onyejelem was one of the only six Ireland’s National Ambassadors appointed for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008. He is currently a member of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs/NGO Standing Committee on Human Rights.

Selected current work projects include:
Gospel Music Festival.
Conversations with Blackmen, a book in progress.
Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards (MAMA), a recognition of the contributions of individuals and
organizations in promoting cross-cultural understanding and cooperation in Ireland.

Pia Orrenius is Assistant Vice President and Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Adjunct Professor at the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. At the Fed, Orrenius is a regional economist working on economic growth and demographic change. Her academic research focuses on the labor market impacts of immigration, unauthorized immigration, and U.S. immigration policy, and her work has been published in the Journal of Development Economics, Labour Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, among others. She is coauthor of the book Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization (2010, AEI Press). Dr. Orrenius is a Research Fellow at The Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. She was senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, Washington D.C. in 2004-2005. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and B.A. degrees in economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Current work projects include:
Participating on a National Academy of Science Committee charged with recommending methods to estimate the volume of unauthorized migration across the Southwest border.
Authoring a chapter in the Handbook of International Migration.
Editing regional economy publication called Southwest Economy

Jonathan Osborne is the chief legislative analyst for NumbersUSA, a Washington, DC based nonprofit organization focused on immigration. His responsibilities include meeting with members of Congress and their staff, writing detailed analysis of legislation pending before Congress, researching politics and policy, and managing correspondences. Before joining NumbersUSA, Mr. Osborne spent five years as senior legislative assistant for U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey of Georgia, where he advised the Congressman, wrote speeches, and drafted legislation on issues including agriculture, education, energy, foreign affairs, immigration, labor and trade policy. Furthermore, he staffed Congressman Gingrey on the House Education and the Workforce, Rules, and Science Committees. Mr. Osborne has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Berry College in Rome, Georgia, where he majored in history and minored in political science.

Selected current work projects include:
Managing a list of the top 50 campaigns and political races across the United States where immigration is a central issue of contention.
Preparing a series of blogs about the political landscape of the upcoming U.S. general election.
Maintaining a conversation with members of Congress and their staff about appropriations and the possibility of debating comprehensive immigration reform in the 111th Congress.

Karoline Popp is an Associate Migration Policy Officer at the headquarters of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva, Switzerland. As part of the Department of International Cooperation and Partnerships, her daily work revolves around IOM’s liaison with governments, partner agencies and other stakeholders. She covers a variety of subject areas, in particular questions of global and regional migration governance, human rights of migrants, and the linkages between migration, climate change and the environment. Some of her principal responsibilities pertain to IOM’s International Dialogue on Migration, an annual multilateral forum on migration policy issues. Before working for IOM, Ms. Popp spent time with a non-governmental organization in Ecuador and worked as a volunteer case worker in a refugee charity in the United Kingdom. She holds a bachelor’s degree in geography from Oxford University and a master’s degree in dispute and conflict resolution from the School of Oriental and African Studies. In her research pieces, she examined local perceptions of migration in southern Spain and the position of migrants in international law.

Selected current and recent work projects include:
Work on stranded migrants and migrants caught in crisis situations. 
Chapter on “Regional Processes, Law and Institutional Developments on Migration”. In Opeskin et al (forthcoming) Foundations of International Migration Law. Cambridge University Press.

Diana Daskalova is the head attorney and founder of the newly established Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria (CLA). CLA is an independent nonprofit organization promoting rights of migrants and refugees in Bulgaria as well as other vulnerable groups of people through legal aid and policy advocacy. Ms. Radoslavova is actively engaged in counseling, litigation, and representation of asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants in front of administrative authorities and courts on the territory of Bulgaria and Europe. Previously, she was the head lawyer for the Legal Clinic for Refugees and Immigrants at the Law Faculty of the National University in Sofia, Bulgaria, where her work combined both theoretical and practical training of students in refugee and migration law. Ms. Radoslavova completed a master’s degree in international law in South Korea. Her practical involvement working with minority groups has included short-term assistance of local human rights organizations in Pakistan in 2006 and at in the Thai-Burma border region in 2007.

Selected current work projects include:
Litigating several pilot law cases in front of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on issues of prolonged detention of immigrants in Bulgaria, family separation of migrant’s families through expulsion from the territory of the country measures, availability of effective local remedies in case of migrants’ rights violation, and right-to-life refugee cases.
Campaigning for the respect of basic human rights for undocumented migrants, and assistance in accessing these rights, including changes in the current Aliens Act in Bulgaria through determination of restricted period of forced detention in accordance with EU standards.
Campaigning for improved refugee and immigrant rights protection in Bulgaria through work with the media and enhancing public awareness regarding refugee and immigrant issues.

Shiv Ratan is the director for Financial Services and Budget of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in New Delhi. Since late 2008 Mr. Ratan has been responsible for maintaining economic ties with the Indian Diaspora, promoting partnerships for research on migration and the Diaspora, creating awareness on legal migration amongst potential emigrants, supporting the Diaspora Knowledge Network and the India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians, which promote Diaspora Philanthropy. Mr. Ratan previously worked for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) West Bengal Telecom Circle.

Mr. Ratan holds master’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (India).

Dr. Ettore Recchi is a professor of sociology in the University of Florence, where he has tenure from 1993. He holds a PhD (with distinction) in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute. Currently he is co-director of the Euro-Mediterranean School on Migration and Development at the European University Institute, and director of the Social Work program at the University of Florence, where he is also a member of the steering committee of the PhD program in Sociology and of the scientific committee of Centro Interuniversitario di Sociologia Politica (CIUSPO). He has taught and researched at the University of Florence, the EUI, the University of Michigan, Gonzaga University, UCLA, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and SWPS (Warsaw). Dr. Recchi is the author of more than forty publications in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish, including monographs, book chapters, and journal articles. His main research focuses are migration, social stratification, elites, and European integration.

David Reisenzein works as an external relations officer for the European Agency for the Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union, Frontex. He is responsible for Frontex cooperation with International Organizations and EU Bodies. He negotiates working arrangements with international organizations and advises the senior management of Frontex on the latest developments with regard to European and international border management and migration policies and their potential impact on Frontex. Before joining Frontex, he headed the Unit for Development, Programs, Policy and Media at the international business management (IOM) in Vienna. He holds a PhD in law and a master’s degree in international business management from the University of Innsbruck, as well as a master’s degree in advanced international relations from the Diplomatic Academy Vienna.

Dr. Liliana Rivera-Sanchez is Sociologist. She received her PhD in 2004 from the New School for Social Research, New York. Her PhD dissertation, “Belongings and Identities: Migrants between the Mixteca and New York City” was the point of departure in her studies on Mexican migration to the United States. Her main geographic areas of interest are in Mexico and the United States, with special interest in so-called emergent regions of Mexican migration and new destination points in the United States, mainly from Mexican municipalities with high rates of migration to different internal destinations and connected to international points in the United States. The central focus of her research is understanding how the internal migration in Mexico is currently enhancing international migration, and how both internal and international migration are connected to a transnational migrant circuit. Her main theoretical and practical research interests center on this concept of the transnational migrant circuit, which is the reflexive application of network analysis, studies on transnational practices and processes, and theoretical concerns on social exchange. This research found that understanding the role play of circular migrants and particularly return migrants is central for giving an account on how current translocal and transnational migrant circuits are conforming and functioning in the global context, and which are the sociocultural and socio-economic effects on local communities in Mexico, what kind of interconnections and intersections take place in such circuits.

Current works in progress speak about these issues and challenges of how contemporary Mexican migrants are dealing with the migrant experience. During the spring semester 2008, Professor Rivera is preparing a book named The Spiral of Mobilities: Linkages and Practices of Interconnectedness into a Transnational Migratory Circuit, National Autonomous University of Mexico Press, forthcoming 2009 (in Spanish).

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Gabriel Sandoval was recently appointed to serve in the Obama Administration as senior counsel in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Department of Education. With 12 regional offices throughout the United States, OCR enforces federal civil rights to ensure that elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, vocational schools, and other entities that receive federal funding for programs or activities do not discriminate against students on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. Prior to joining the administration, Mr. Sandoval served as deputy legal counsel to Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. In this capacity, Mr. Sandoval provided advice to the Mayor and his staff on a range of local, state, federal, and international legal and policy issues, including civil rights, education, homeland security and public safety, economic development, and legislation. He also directed the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and related immigrant integration initiatives focused on citizenship acquisition, civic engagement, and political empowerment.

Over the course of his professional career, he has held posts in the private, nonprofit, and governmental sectors, including federal law clerk to the Honorable Carlos R. Moreno (then District Judge of the Central District of California), associate at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP, special counsel to the Secretary of Legal Affairs in the Governor Gray Davis Administration, community affairs coordinator for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and grassroots organizer for No on Proposition 187, the 1994 statewide campaign aimed at defeating California’s anti-immigrant initiative. A native of Los Angeles and the son of Mexican immigrants, Mr. Sandoval received his Bachelor of Arts in political science with departmental honors from Stanford University and his Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law, where he served as a submissions and staff editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and received a Human Rights Fellowship.

Ayesha Saran works for the Barrow Cadbury Trust, an independent charitable foundation based in London. Ms. Saran is the Trust’s Migration and Europe Program Manager, managing and actively contributing to the Trust’s research and policy work as well as its grant-making in the UK and internationally. Between 2002 and 2008 Ms. Saran worked for the Presence in Albania of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), prior to which she was a project manager at the International Organization for Migration. Ms. Saran also spent some time working as a freelance journalist in London. 

Ms Saran is a Trustee of British Future, a new independent, non-partisan think tank seeking to involve people in an open conversation about identity and integration, migration and opportunity. 

Ms. Saran holds a MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the London College of Printing and completed her undergraduate degree at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

Aram Sarr is a youth activist fighting injustice in Africa, with a focus on children’s rights and youth in armed conflict. In 2006 she was appointed as president of the Gambian chapter of the African Youth Coalitions Against Hunger, representing Gambia on the International Board of Presidents. She attended the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, where she brought uncontrolled European migration to the attention of the participants. To further address the issue of illegal immigration, Ms. Sarr co-founded the African Youth Employment Vision, an organization that seeks to strengthen local communities through increasing employment, sustainable livelihood, and local agriculture and trade rules.

Ms. Marietje Schaake is Member of the European Parliament. Previously, she served as a non-resident fellow with the Atlantic Association, a Dutch think tank focused on transatlantic relations and security issues. Her book on the relationship between transatlantic relations and the debate and policy on Muslims in the West will be published in the fall of 2008. For the past 2 years she has worked as a consultant for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the American Ambassador in The Hague focusing on diversity, integration, and Islam in the West, mostly in a transatlantic context. In this capacity Ms. Schaake designed a conference bringing together a diverse group of Muslims from the United States and The Netherlands. Ms. Schaake continues to do freelance work on projects in international relations, business, and the cultural sector. She believes it is important to bring grass roots and personal experiences to the attention of the business, political, and government elites. For example, she is now working on a project with the corporate members of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands to create thousands of internship positions for youngsters in vocational high schools. She likes to use creativity and innovative concepts.

Olga Schedrina is a program officer at the New Eurasia Foundation, where she focuses on realization of migration and territorial developments projects. Before joining the New Eurasia Foundation in 2006, Ms. Schedrina worked as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. There, she participated in a number of projects conducted at the Institute of Sociology, including “Interethnic Tolerance in Russia: the training project,” “Formation of Tolerant Attitudes Toward the Migrants in Moscow Area,” and the “Formation of Civic Identity and Optimization of Interethnic Relationships in Moscow City Area.” Ms. Schedrina graduated from the Russian State University of Humanities and received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Sociology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has authored a variety of publications including Possibility of the Multicultural Integration of Migrants in Contemporary Russia (2003) and The Transformation of Law Enforcement Institutions in Multicultural Reality (2005).

Selected current work projects include:
Monitoring of migration processes in the Russian regions and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. Development of a migration processes monitoring system in the Russian regions and the CIS countries that focuses on the study of migration flows in the Russian regions and their origination in the country of exodus.
Organization of the Public Campaign on Migration Related Issues in the Post-Conflict Localities of the Northern Caucuses, a joint project with the British Embassy in Moscow. Adaptation of hosting society toward diversity growth and migration inflow.

Karina Schmerbauch is an external personal consultant of Daimler AG in Stuttgart. She has been responsible for international assignments from Germany since 2003. After graduating with a focus in certified business economics with a focus on human resources management in 2006, she became responsible for international assignments from Germany to North America and Argentina. Beginning in April 2010, she has been responsible for assignees coming to Germany, in addition to her business as a personal consultant for expatriates. She is the central personal contact for about 80 outbounds and inbounds throughout their assignments. Her main tasks are to ensure the observance of the Going Global Policy, to conduct contract talks with the assignees, and to calculate their contracts as well as their income reviews.

Selected current work projects include:
Onboarding process of new colleagues.
Reporting project to create evaluations out of Daimler AG’s IT-System.

Reva Seth most recently served as a project coordinator for the Cities of Migration initiative of the Maytree Foundation. In this role, she brought together her background in law, public policy, and communications in order to identify, research, and profile international examples of successful local integration practices.

In addition, Ms. Seth is the author of First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice From the Wisdom Of Arranged Marriages (NYC: Simon & Schuster: June 2008), which is the first book to examine the tradition of arranged marriages from a positive viewpoint and aims to foster a more nuanced cultural understanding of this global practice.

Ms. Seth has studied international relations at the University of British Columbia, holds a law degree (LLB) from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Law in international trade and competition (LLM) from Osgoode Hall.

Select current work projects include:
Research and communications for the Cities of Migration Project.
Programming for the 2010 International Cities of Migration Conference, From Migration to Integration: An Opportunity Agenda for Cities, The Hague, October 3-4, 2010.

Sicel’mpilo Shange-Buthane is the deputy director of the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA). She joined CoRMSA in September 2007 after having worked in the human rights sector for seven years at the Black Sash. Her current position involves engaging with government and other stakeholders at local, provincial, and national levels on legislative and policy issues affecting non-nationals in South Africa, including the challenges encountered in the protection and integration of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants. Ms Shange-Buthane manages the Access to Social Services and Access to Asylum Programs. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in forced migration at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Some of her current projects are:
Advocating for and lobbying on access to education and social security for non-nationals.
Coordinating work on access to the Refugee Reception Offices.

Agata Sobiech is a policy officer at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Home Affairs, where she deals with questions related to external aspects of migration policy. She has been working in DG Home Affairs for over seven years covering policies on migration and Schengen cooperation.

Ms. Sobiech holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Poznan (Poland) and a master’s degree in European Studies from the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw). Throughout her studies Ms. Sobiech has specialized in migration and asylum issues. In parallel to her work, she is currently studying for a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

Riem Spielhaus is a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Islamic Thought. Her dissertation “Who is a Muslim anyway? The emergence of a Muslim consciousness in Germany between ascription and self-identification” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin was rewarded the Augsburg Science Award for Intercultural Studies 2010. She majored both in Islamic Studies and African Studies. 

After completing her Magister Artium Riem Spielhaus has been working as advisor for the commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration of the German Federal Government. Later on she was a member of several working groups, which were set up by the German government, local administrations and civic organizations like the first “German Islam Conference” (2006-2009).

Current selected work projects include:
Her research interest in Muslim minority studies with a focus on the production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge, identity politics, and the institutionalization of Islam in Europe.
Her main field of expertise in Muslim religious practices and the institutionalization of Islam in Germany and Europe.

Oliver Steinert is head of the Central Aspects of Integration and Social Cohesion section in the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Germany. The year before, he was head of public relations in the Department of Integration at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. At university he dealt with the integration of Polish migrants in Germany. His doctoral thesis compares the integration process of Poles in Berlin between 1870 and 1918 with the parallel integration process of Polish migrants in the Rhein-Ruhr-Area.

Selected current work projects include:
The organization of a conference on Integration in June 2010 in Nuremberg (highlighting aspects of education, language and monitoring/indicators).
A concept concerning social cohesion and intercultural awareness.
Proposals to improve the link beween programs on social integration and those intending integration in the labor market.

Victoria Stoiciu has a bachelor’s degree in political sciences and a master’s degree in international relations from the National School of Administrative and Political Studies, Bucharest. Since 2006 she has been working as a policy officer on social affairs at Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Romania. In addition, she regularly writes articles on migration and social issues for two Romanian newspapers: Dilema Veche and Romania Libera.

Current selected work projects include:
The economic crisis’s impact on labor migration.
Labor market policies under the crisis.
“Romanian migrants’ dilemma: Domestic or foreign crisis?” A series of media articles reporting on the life stories of the Romanian migrants from Spain, Italy, Cyprus, etc.

Amy Sugimori is executive director of La Fuente, which houses the New York Civic and Long Island Civic Participation Projects (NYCPP/LICPP). Both projects engage new immigrant community members in civic life in New York City and on Long Island. Prior to being appointed executive director of La Fuente, Ms. Sugimori worked as an attorney for the National Employment Law Project, where she provided support to community and labor organizations throughout the United States Before that, she litigated in Texas and in the Southeast on behalf of rural and agricultural workers. Ms. Sugimori is an expert on the intersection of U.S. immigration and employment law, and speaks regularly on these issues. She has published articles on immigrant worker rights, the labor market, undocumented workers, and movement building. She received a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was editor in chief of the NYU Review of Law & Social Change.

Current selected projects include:
Engaging immigrant community members in the public debate around state and local budgets and their impact on access to public facilities, including public schools, parks, and street lighting.
Providing workshops for new immigrant community members on state and federal political structures, the electoral
process, and how these impact issues of community concern.
Building relationships between Latin American immigrant communities and African, South Asian and Middle Eastern community groups to work on issues of common concern, including immigration reform and public education.

Dr. Aly Tandian is an assistant professor of sociology at the Gaston Berger University (Saint-Louis). He obtained a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Toulouse Le Mirail 2 in 2003 for his thesis “International Migration to the Question of Identity: Redefinition of Statutes of Migrants and Women’s Changing Identities in the Middle Senegal River Valley.” Dr. Tandian is the coordinator of the interdisciplinary Migration Studies and Research Group [www.germ.sn], associate member at the Centre d’Anthropologie, EHESS CNRS (Toulouse), scientific collaborator at the Centre of Ethnic and Migration Studies of the University of Liege (Belgium) and at Grupo Estudios de Poblacion Social, Universitad de Complutence (Madrid, Spain). From 2003-2006 he taught the sociology of international migration and interethnic relations at the University of Toulouse Le Mirail 2. He has published numerous articles on migration and interethnic relations in subSaharan populations in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and Senegal. Currently, his research focuses on climate change and migration, the social protection of female Senegalese migrants, migration, ITCs, and transnationalism.

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Karen Tumlin, is a Managing Attorney at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) in Los Angeles, California. She focuses on promoting the rights of low-income immigrants through litigation and administrative advocacy. Before joining NILC in 2005, Ms. Tumlin clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as a research associate at the Urban Institute, where she coauthored studies on immigration, welfare, and language access issues. She also spent a year in Thailand, where she conducted a study on child trafficking for the U.N. International Labor Organization. Ms. Tumlin holds a juris doctor degree and a master of public policy from the University of California-Berkeley.

Selected current projects include:
Challenging Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, in federal district court on several constitutional grounds.
Litigation to ensure detained immigrants are able to have their day in court and are not detained in sub-standard conditions.
Pursuing administrative solutions to current immigration problems.

K. Onur Unutulmaz is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford. He holds bachelor’s degrees in political science, international relations, and sociology from Bogazici University, Istanbul, and master’s degrees in international relations and migration studies from Koc University, Istanbul, and University of Oxford, respectively. In addition to having served as a research and teaching assistant in Bogazici and Koc Universities, Mr. Unutulmaz has presented several academic papers at various workshops and conferences including those at Harvard University, University of Montreal, London School of Economics, and University of Oxford. His research, focused primarily on the questions of integration and multiculturalism in Western societies, has always had a policy oriented outlook.

Selected current work projects include:
“Football and Turkish-Speaking Immigrants in London: Identity, Integration and Political Economy”
Doctoral research project involving a one-year ethnographic field study in North London.
“Double-Edged Sword of Betrayal: Immigrant Football Players and National Identity”
Research paper exploring the experiences of immigrant professional football players with respect to their national identities, particularly in relation to their choices to play for the national team of the country of immigration or the country of origin.
“Studying Immigrant Identities: How to go beyond the study of discourses?” – A research paper exploring the epistemological and ontological conditions in which multiple immigrant identities can be investigated other than discourse analyses based on in-depth interviews.

Priyanca Mathur Velath is currently studying for her doctorate at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, where she is researching the “Rights of Development-Induced Displaced Persons in India.”

Ms. Velath completed her studies in philosphy at the Centre for Political Studies at JNU, and a master’s degree in refugee studies at the University of Oxford. She has researched and written on involuntary and forced migration, development-induced displacement and rehabilitation policies of the Indian state. Ms.Velath also edits the quarterly journal, Rights and Development at the Centre for Development and Human Rights, New Delhi that enquires into socio-economic developmental issues in India and South Asia through a rights-based perspective.

Daisuke Wakisaka is part of the policy staff of the Industrial Policy Bureau of Nippon Keidanren in the Japan Business Federation, which is one of the most influential economic organizations in Japan. Since May 2008, he works for industrial affairs and is engaged in international mobility issues from the perspective of enhancing the industrial competitiveness. As a part of this assignment, he was dispatched to Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom in order to investigate European immigration policies.

Mr. Wakisaka accomplished the mission report, which was incorporated into the Keidanren’s policy proposal, “An Economy and Society That Responds to the Challenges of a Declining Population.” He also contributed with other related-articles to the journal. Previously, he was engaged in European affairs, G8, international trade, and OECD in the International Economic Affairs Bureau in Keidanren. He also writes speech drafts and articles for Keidanren’s senior business executives. Mr. Wakisaka holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics and a master’s degree in economics both from Waseda University, Japan.

Selected current work projects include:
A policy proposal on Japan’s own immigration policy focusing highly-skilled immigrants from business perspective.
The Regulatory Reform on immigration policy in Japan such as smoothing the administrative procedure of issuing the Certificate of Eligibility and Visa.
The economic crisis and immigrants.

Dr. Koko Warner leads the Section on Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Climate Adaptation at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). She researches risk management strategies of the poor in adapting to changing environmental and climatic conditions, environmentally induced migration and environmental change and financial mechanisms to assist the poor, including insurance.

Dr. Warner is an executive board member of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII, www.climate-insurance.org). She was on the management board of the Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios Project (EACH-FOR, www.each-for.eu), helped found the Climate Change, Environment, and Migration Alliance (CCEMA, www.ccema-portal.net), and serves on its steering committee.

Dr. Warner studied development and environmental economics at George Washington University and the University of Vienna, where she received her PhD in economics as a Fulbright Scholar.

Nils Warner is the head of German Development Cooperation in Burundi/Rwanda at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. Previoulsy, Mr. Warner served as desk officer in the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and has almost four years experience in the field of managing development programs to the benefit of the civil reconstruction in Afghanistan, particularly in the fields of good governance, education, infrastructure, and sustainable economic development. Activities concerning the reintegration of Afghan refugees are one important component of his work. Mr. Warner also has a strong record in managing international programs, particularly with Islamic countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, and other Arab countries. He studied law in Passau, Damascus, and Potsdam, and has worked as a legal clerk in Dubai.

Daniel Weber is a representative for training and education at the DGB-Bildungswerk, the education and training institution of the Confederation of German Trade Unions. He works for the Migration and Qualification section, where he is head of the intercultural competence centre. He has worked for several projects to strengthen the local labor market by improving the employment possibilities of migrants. He is now responsible for cultural diversity. Mr. Weber has a university degree in economics from the University of Cologne and has studied at Trinity College, Dublin. His main fields of interest are the economy of the labor-market, establishment of intercultural aspects in further education and training, migration models, political economy, economic geography, the sociology of education and migration, and empirical social sciences.

Selected current work projects include:
Establishing a curriculum for education and training with cultural diversity.
Developing and organising intercultural trainings for stakeholders.
Counseling institutions, trade unions and works councils in intercultural terms.

Jessica Zorogastua is the director of the Cabinet to the Health Council of the Madrid Regional Government. Ms. Zorogastua worked as chief of staff of the Regional Immigration Minister of the Madrid Regional Government until March 2010, then as chief of staff of the Regional Healthcare System Minister of the Madrid Regional Government, the regional minister with the biggest budget in Madrid. The Immigration Agency, the first regional agency in Spain, is a new branch of the Administration that implements immigration and integration policies. In 2006 Spain was the second largest recipient of immigrants, with only the United States attracting more migrants. In 2009 Spain took in a third of all immigrants to the European Union; 5.7 million immigrants are now living in Spain, 12 percent of the total population. Ms. Zorogastua has a bachelor’s degree in social communication from the University of Lima, a master’s degree in social politics from San Marcos National University, and PhD in mass media from Complutense University of Madrid.

Isabell Zwania-Rößler holds a master’s degree in political science and modern/contemporary history from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). She started her work as a desk officer for migration and integration issues with the German Caritas Association in January 2006. She has been working on the subjects of undocumented migrants in Germany and Europe, discrimination in the field of publicly offered goods and services in Germany, Poland and the Netherlands, education and self-determined participation of migrants, and the prevention of forced marriages among migrants in Germany.

During her last year with the German Caritas Ms. Zwania-Rößler researched sustainable development in Africa and related migration issues. In particular, she focused on remittances, the impact of diaspora-communities in their home countries, and the process of reintegration of migrants in national labor markets in Western Africa. Since July 2009 Ms. Zwania-Rößler has lived in Yaoundé, Cameroon and is working on a doctoral dissertation regarding the effects of migration processes in Cameroon.

Selected current work projects include:
From 2007 to 2009, Ms. Zwania-Rößler coordinated a project regarding the issue of forced marriages among migrants for the German Caritas. In May 2010 a guideline for professional counseling for victims of forced marriages was published with her participation.