Elizabeth Adjei is the Director of Ghana Immigration Service and is the first woman in Ghana, to be appointed Head of the
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Immigration Enforcement. She is responsible for determining strategic direction, policy and managing the development of the Ghana Immigration Service in accordance with legal and international requirements. Elizabeth has been involved in managing large-scale international public sector restructuring projects over the past years. She has a Masters degree in International Development (Dev. Policy) and was also the Coordinator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship |
Programme. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences and a Diplome d’Etudes Français from the Université de Benin, Lome, Togo.
Steffen Angenendt is Senior Associate at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Within the Global Issues Division he is responsible for research on demography, migration and security. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Free University in Berlin.
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From 1993-2006 her worked as a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, where he was responsible for the Council’s research program on German, European and global migration and was editor of the Council’s Yearbook on International Relations. Before joining the Council, he was from 1989-1993 research fellow at the Political Science Department of the Free University |
of Berlin. He also worked as a consultant i.a. to UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, the German Federal Government’s Independent Commission on Immigration Reform, the Council for Asia-Europe Co-operation, and the High Council on Migration and Integration of the German government.
Oliver Bakewell is a Senior Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, Oxford University and a Research Associate at the Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), also in Oxford. He is working on a program of research on African migration, including the African Perspectives on Human Mobility Programme, which
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is funded by the MacArthur Foundation and conducting research in collaboration with colleagues in Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana and DR Congo. His research interests include the changing patterns of migration within Africa; the relationship between migration and development; the interface between migration policy and migrants’ behaviour, in particular the attitudes towards and use of papers (passports, ID cards, |
visas etc.); forced migration, repatriation and humanitarian aid. He holds a PhD and MSc in Development Studies from the University of Bath (UK) and a BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
Ummu Salma Bava is Professor of European Studies and Coordinator of the Netherlands Prime Minister’s Grant at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India and an Associate Fellow with the Asia Society, New York. Her research focus is on Indian Foreign Policy, South Asian and European Security
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and Politics, Regional Integration and Organization (EU, NATO, SAARC and Asia- Pacific), International Politics, Globalization and Norms and Conflict Resolution. She is one of the leading experts in India on contemporary India and Europe with a focus on foreign and security policy. She has numerous publications to her credit and her latest research articles are in major publications. She was selected in 2007 |
for the International Visitor Leadership Program of the U. S. State Department and in 2005 was invited and recognized by the French Ministry of External Affairs as Personnalites D'Avenir.
Maria Böhmer is the State Minister and the Federal German Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration.
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Prior to this position she was a member of the German Parliament since 1990. From February 2000 until November 2005 she served as acting chairwoman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary party. Earlier in her career Ms. Böhmer was a professor of Education at the Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg. |
Jean-Pierre Cassarino is scientific director of the MIREM project (Return Migration to the Maghreb): a three-year research project on
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migrants' reintegration patterns in the Maghreb countries, co-funded by the European Union and the EUI. He also directs, together with Rainer Bauböck, the Migration Working Group; an open and multidisciplinary forum hosted at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS). He holds a PhD (1998) in Political and Social |
Sciences. His current research interests focus on bilateral and multilateral cooperation on migration management, particularly on return and development issues. He has been doing research on migration issues, particularly on migrants' patterns of reintegration for more than ten years and published essays and articles in several leading international journals, both theoretically and empirically. He recently edited “Return Migrants to the Maghreb Countries: Reintegration and development challenges”, RSCAS/European University Institute, 2008.
Brima Conteh is the founder and current director of Diaspora Afrique. He was born in Sierra Leone and worked in France as
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a translator. The network Diaspora Afrique which he founded aiming to reconnect the African Diaspora has been participating in several campaigns against racism and all forms of discrimination. Mr. Conteh is active in the European Network Against Racism, the European Social Forum and was a delegate to the World Conference against Racism in Durban in 2001 as well as a resource person for the African Diaspora African Union meeting in Paris 2007. |
Jean D´Cunha is the Regional Programme Director of the UNIFEM East and South-East Asia Regional Office. Dr. D’Cunha holds a
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doctorate in Sociology from India, where she was an academic for over 12 years before coming to the UN system. She has over 20 years of substantive and field engagement in the area of development studies and practice, more involvement has primarily focused on trafficking, migration, issues related to women’s sexuality, violence against women, gender and disasters, where she has been published in reputed Indian and international journals. |
She has been advisor to several governments in the region. While in India she was recipient of National Award for Outstanding Writing on Women’s Issues in 1986.
Don J. DeVoretz is a Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. Hewas the Co-Director of RIIM, Vancouver’s Centre
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of Excellence on Immigration Studies and Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University from 1996-2007. He is a Research Fellow with IZA (Germany), Migration Research Group (Germany) and Project Director and Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Dr. DeVoretz was named a British Columbia Scholar to China in 2000. In addition, Dr. DeVoretz’s current research interests include the economics of immigration |
with special emphasis on “Brain Circulation” and citizenship issues. His most recent book "Economics of Citizenship" will be published in 2009.
Howard Duncan received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1981 from the University of Western Ontario where he studied the history and
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philosophy of science. He was a post-doctoral fellow there and subsequently taught philosophy at the University of Ottawa and the University of Western Ontario. In 1987, Dr. Duncan entered the field of consulting in strategic planning, policy development and program evaluation. In 1989 he joined the Department of Health and Welfare in Ottawa where he worked in program evaluation, strategic planning, and policy. In 1997, Howard |
joined the Metropolis Project as its International Project Director, and became its Executive Head in 2002. He has concentrated on increasing the geographic reach of Metropolis, enlarging the range of the issues it confronts, and increasing its benefits to the international migration policy community by creating opportunities for direct and frank exchanges between researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Howard is also an amateur jazz guitarist.
Jason Gagnon is a research associate with the Poverty Reduction and Social Development group, focused particularly in the areas of
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migration and development. Jason completed a DEA at the Paris School of Economics where he wrote his thesis on the intertemporal determinants of migration. Prior to joining the Development Centre in September of 2007, he completed graduate studies at the Stockholm School of Economics (MSc) and undergraduate studies at the University of Ottawa (BComm), alongside shorter stays at the ESC-Grenoble and the Centre for Public Policy in Prague. Employment |
experiences include lecturing at the Pan-African Institute for Development in Douala,Cameroon, consultancy with Amity Bank Cameroon PLC and financial auditing with the Office of the Auditor General of Canada and PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Janusz Grzyb
graduated in modern languages and literatures at the Warsaw University. Since 1986 he has been employed in the Ministry
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of Labour and Social Policy at the directing posts. Between 1989 and 1994 he was vice-consul and a labour attaché in Berlin. An author and co-author of many papers, articles and studies on labour migration published in Polish and international media. Mr. Grzyb has been involved in negotiations of several bilateral agreements on employment. |
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At present he is the Director of the Department of Migration, Member of the EU Technical and Advisory Committee and the High Level Prime Minister.
Syed Nayyar Hasnain Haider is the managing director of the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation. Prior to this position Mr. Haider
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worked seven years as Additional Inspector General Police in Sindh. From 1997 until 2000 he was DIG Police Quetta Range in Baluchinstan and from 1994 until 1997 he was Director of the Federal Investigation Agency in Karachi. He served as Director of Finance with Civial Aviation Authority and Directo General Federal Ombudsman in the early nineties. Early in his career Mr. Haider held several positions with the Superintendent |
and General Police and has attended many international seminars and conferences including several sessions of the Political Platform of the Council of Europe on Migration.
Bernd Hemingway is as of September 2006, the Regional Representative for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in
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Brussels. From March 2003 until August 2006 he worked for the IOM in Berlin as the Chief of Mission in Germany. Prior to beginning at the IOM, he was a senior expert for The Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. From 1994 until 1999, Bernd Hemingway held various positions in the European Commission, the first as Financial Manager of Research in the Field of Telecommunications, the |
second as Task Manager of Enlargement and the last as Task Manager of External Relations. Early in his career, he was a police officer for the Ministry of Interior as well as an investigator for the Senator of Interior in Germany.
Egbert Holthuis is a Dutch citizen and has Masters Degrees in Business Administration and Geography. Before joining the European
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Commission in 1993 he worked respectively in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO. He started his career for the European Commission working in the Commission's Delegation in Tchad as an economic counsellor. In DG Enterprise he worked respectively in the Steel and Chemicals Unit (in the latter he was concerned with the chemicals |
legislation REACH). Upon joining DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities in 2004 he was involved in migration and integration question both from an analytical point of view (e.g. Employment Analysis Unit) as well as policy wise for example in the context of the Lisbon and the European Employment strategy. Egbert currently is Deputy Head of Unit in the Employment Policy Unit.
Friedrich-Alexander Hoppe is a member of the Strategic Planning Section at the Federal Police Headquarters in Potsdam. He worked as a lawyer before he joined the Federal Police in 1999. After completing a senior course at the Police Academy Münster he held several positions at operational-tactical level in the Federal Police and at strategic level in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. His most recent function was in the “Joint Centre for Illegal Migration Analysis and Policy (GASIM)” in Berlin. Hoppe published on legal and public order topics.
Thomas Huddleston co-authored the second edition of the Migrant Integration Policy Index, published in October 2007, and presented
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the study extensively throughout Europe. The MIPEX benchmarks national policies on integration across Europe and Canada ). He is also co-author of MPG's 2007 study for the European Parliament, Setting up a system of benchmarking to measure the success of integration policies in Europe, as well as two chapters in a forthcoming book in the Martin Nijhoff series on Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe, entitled Legal instruments for the integration of third-country |
nationals. He is currently working on the third edition of the European Commission's Handbook on Integration for policymakers and practitioners.
George Joseph is a migration expert for Caritas and the Catholic
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Church in Sweden. He currently sits on the Executive Board of PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants). He is also a member of the Migration Commission of Caritas Europe and a representative of Scandinavian Bishops Conference at the Migration Working group of COMECE. He lectures as a Visiting Professor at University of Wisconsin and University of Tokyo. |
Mohamed Khachani is Professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Science at the University Mohammed V in Rabat. He is
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President of l’Association Marocaine d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Migrations (an Association of Studies and Research of Migration). He has a doctor’s degree of Social Sciences from the University of Grenoble and a Doctorat d’Etat (highest French doctoral degree, comparable to a State doctorate) in Economics from the University Lumière Lyon II. He is a member of many national and international committees and an author of |
three books on the phenomenon of migration and Euro-Mediterranean relations: Les Marocains d’ailleurs: la question migratoire à l’épreuve du partenariat euro- marocain (2004), La migration subsaharienne: le Maroc comme espace de transit. (2006), Les Marocains dans les pays arabes pétroliers (2008).
Mark Kleinman is Director for Migration and Chief Social Researcher in the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG)
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where he leads work on the impact of migration on communities, and advises Ministers on migration and demographic change. Previously, as Director of Regional, Urban and Economic Policy, he led CLG’s work on cities and regional policy, urban design, property and urban regeneration and European regional funding.Prior to his career in government, he taught at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and he is the author or co-author of more than 100 books, |
articles and papers. He has been a consultant to the OECD, the European Commission, the UK Film Council, English Heritage, the Department for Education andBilbao, Kyoto and Osaka.
Gottfried Köfner is the UNHCR’s Regional Representative for Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic. Before beginning this position
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in 2005, he was a UNHCR representative in Austria. Other positions Mr. Köfner has held with the UNHCR have been Deputy Chief of Mission in the Office of Chief of Mission in Pristina/Kosovo, Head of Liaison Office in Malaysia from 1997 until 2000, Senior Protection Officer in the Branch Office in Sri Lanka and Senior Legal Officer at the Regional Office in Austria. Mr. Köfner has been on two emergency missions in Kupang, Indonesia |
and in Kigali, Rwanda. His long career at the UNHCR started in 1982, when he took the position of Legal Assistant (Consultant) at the UNHCR Branch Office in Germany. Before he began working for the UNHCR, Mr. Köfner held research positions at the International Research Centre in Salzburg, was a lecturer and consultant at Salzburg College and worked for the Documentation Centre for Refugee Work in Bonn.
Ambassador Nehad Abdel Latif is the Secretary General of the Permanent Secretariat for the Implementation of the Egypt - EU
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Association Agreement. In 1965 graduated with a degree in Economics and Political Science. A year later he joined the Diplomatic Service, where he represented Egypt as a member of its embassies in Bulgaria, Sweden, Chile and France. From 1996 until 2002 he was an Ambassador of Egypt in Italy. He held various government positions including Secretary General of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Co- operation in Africa, Assistant |
Minister and Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Assistant Minister for International Economic Relations. He was a non resident Ambassador in Macedonia and Croatia.
Hans Dietrich von Loeffelholz has been the section head of Research on the Economics of Migration and Integration at the Federal
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Office for Migration and Refugees in Germany since the beginning of 2005. The research focuses on current immigration within the EU labour market especially immigration of highly qualified professionals. Beginning the mid 1990s he taught at the University Bochum. His research expertises are in the economic and fiscal effects of immigration and demographic change. In light of this he has served many ministries, commissions and councils as an expert. |
After finishing his degree in economics and receiving his PHd in 1979 Dr. von Loeffelholz worked in upper-level positions for the Rhein-Westfalian Institute for Research on Economics (RWI) in Essen. In the mid 1990s Hans Dietrich Loeffelholz published the first study on entrepreneurship in the ethnic community in Germany. He produced a highly regarded monography in 2000, on the economic and fiscal effects of immigration in Germany.
Gregory A. Maniatis oversees the European programs for the Migration Policy Institute in Washington and serves as the Executive
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Director of the Transatlantic Council on Migration. He is also advisor to Peter Sutherland, the UN Special Representative for Migration.
Mr. Maniatis consults to the European Commission, Member State governments, the European Parliament, and international organizations on all aspects of immigration and integration policy. In 2007, he led MPI's advisory work for the EU Presidencies of Germany |
and Portugal; in previous years, he oversaw MPI’s work with the European Union Presidencies of Greece and the Netherlands. Prior to his positions at MPI and the UN, he was founder and publisher of Odyssey magazine, an English-language bimonthly that is the leading international magazine about Greece and Greeks around the world. He is also a writer and producer whose reportage and commentary have been featured in many major publications in the USA. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Hans Werner Mundt is Senior Advisor to the Migration and Development project of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Agency for Technical
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Cooperation (GTZ). The doctor of law and lawyer joined GTZ in 1974. He managed the Centrum für Internationale Migration und Entwicklung, a joint operation of the Federal Employment Agency and GTZ, from 1980- 2003. From 1996-2003he was a member of GTZ’s committee of executives. His current interests focus on the development issues of migration in sending countries and the potential of collaboration between migrants and their associations and development organisations. |
Moreover he takes a great interest in the interrelation between integration of migrants in receiving countries and their persistent personal and cultural ties to their countries of origin.
Demetrios G. Papademetriou is the President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively
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to the study of international migration. He is also the convener of the Transatlantic Council on Migration and its predecessor, the Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration and Integration (co-convened with the Bertelsmann Stiftung). Dr. Papademetriou also convenes the Athens Migration Policy Initiative (AMPI), a task force of mostly European senior immigration experts that advises EU members states on immigration and asylum issues, and the Co-Founder |
and International Chair Emeritus of “Metropolis: An International Forum for Research and Policy on Migration and Cities.” Mr. Papademetriou has taught at the universities of Maryland, Duke, American, and New School for Social Research. He has published more than 200 books, articles, monographs and research reports on migration topics and advises senior government and political party officials in more than twenty countries.
Doris Peschke, born 1957, holds a university diploma in theology. After studies in Berlin (West), Göttingen, the Ecumenical Institute
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Bossey (Geneva/Switzerland) and Marburg from 1976-1982 and an internship with the World Council of Churches' Programme to Combat Racism in 1981, she was working for the representation of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO of Namibia in Bonn from 1983-1988 and as Secretary for Churches' |
Development Services of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau from 1988-1999. Since September 1999, she is General Secretary of the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe, an ecumenical agency of churches in Europe on migration, asylum and anti-racism.
S. Irudaya Rajan holds a PhD in Demography from the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai and is currently a Chair
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Professor of the Research Unit on International Migration (set up by the Ministry of Indian Overseas Affairs) at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He has two decades of research experience in demographic issues in Kerala, has published extensively, and has contributed seminally to debates on the demographic aspects of the 'Kerala Model' of development in national and international |
forums. He has worked on issues relating to sex ratio, migration, abortion, aging and migration and has been involved in four major surveys, the Kerala Fertility Survey, the Kerala Migration Surveys (1998, 2003, 2007 and 2008), Kerala Mental Health Survey and Kerala Aging Surveys (2004 and 2008). He is the coordinator of the Kerala State Development Report prepared for the Planning Commission, Government of India and also member of the National Migration Policy drafting group of the Ministry Overseas Indians Affairs.
Claudia Roth has been chairwoman of the Green Party in the German Parliament since October 2004. Before that, she was
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Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office starting in March 2003. In 2002 she began a term in the German Parliament and sat on the Committees on Foreign Affairs and on Cultural and Media Affairs. Claudia Roth was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 until 1998, serving as chairwoman of the Green Party in the European Parliament starting |
in 1994. In 1987 she first became a member of the Green Party and from 1985 until 1989 was the press spokeswoman for the party. Before beginning her political career, Claudia Roth was manager of the rock band Ton Steine Scherben.
Martin Ruhs is an economist at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at Oxford University. Martin has conducted studies
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of the impacts and policy implications of labour immigration in the UK, Ireland, the US, Thailand and Kuwait. His recent research and publications have focused on migrants in low wage jobs in the UK, employer demand for migrant labour, illegality in migrant labour markets, temporary migration programmes and migrant rights. In addition to his academic work, Martin |
has provided policy analysis and advice for various national governments and international institutions including the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM). He is currently a member of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) and was Specialist Adviser to a recent inquiry by the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords into the economic impacts of immigration in the UK.
Saskia Sassen is a professor in the Department of Sociology and The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University as well as
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a Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her research and writing focuses on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. In her research |
she has focused on the unexpected and the counterintuitive as a way to cut through established “truths.” Her three major books, The Mobility of Labor and Capital (1988), The Global City (1991) and Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2006) have each sought to demolish a key established “truth.”
Lemn Sissay is a multi-media performance artist and poet based in London. His most recent works are the book Morning Breaks in the
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Elevetor and a new spoken-word CD Different Drums. His debut book for kids - The Emperor’s Watchmaker - has also recently been published by Bloomsbury. Lemn’s other books are Rebel Without Applause and Tender Fingers In A Clenched Fist. His work is featured in over 50 anthologies of poetry and as editor in The Fire People. His plays include |
‘Storm’, recently produced by The Contact Theatre, and productions by the Black Theatre Forum, Proper Job Theatre & Chaos By Design, and have been regularly broadcast by Radio 4. His recording work includes collaborations with a number of jazz-fusion outfits including Disjam & Leftfield - whose top 10 album Leftism includes Lemn’s 21st Century Poem. His radio and media work has taken in a wide range of projects & programs. In 1995 the BBC made a documentary about his life entitled Internal Flight.
Oded Stark is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, a Professor and Chair in Economic and
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Regional Policy at the University of Klagenfurt, an Honorary University Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Warsaw School of Economics, a Distinguished Fellow at the Center of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and the Research Director of ESCE, Cologne and Eisenstadt. He served as a Professor (Chair in Development Economics) at the |
University of Oslo,and prior to that as a Professor of Population and Economics and as the Director of the Migration and Development Program at Harvard University. He has written on a wide range of topics within the field of economics. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Migration of Labor, and Altruism and Beyond, An Economic Analysis of Transfers and Exchanges Within Families and Groups, and is the co-editor of the Handbook of Population and Family Economics.
Erich Stather has been the state secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) since 1998.
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He is also chair of the supervisory boards for the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit and the Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft. In 2002, he became the chair of the supervisory board of Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt). From 1991 until 1993, Mr. Stather served as state secretary and spokesperson for the state government in Hessen. Prior to this he was the press spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group in the state legislature |
of Hessen. Erich Stather was personal secretary to the parliamentary group chairperson and press officer of the SPD parliamentary group in the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1983 until 1989.
Rita Süssmuth became the Chair of the EU High Level Group on 'Social Integration of Ethnic Minorities and their full Participation
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in the Labour Market' in 2006. She also joined the OECD Development Centre Project 'Gaining from Migration' Advisory Board in Jan 2006. She was member of the Global Commission on International Migration, which presented a report to Kofi Annan in October 2005. She is the President of the OTA-University in Berlin. Prof. Süssmuth was Chair of the Independent Council of Experts on Migration and Integration from |
May 2003 until December 2004. She is also a member of the Steering Committee "Intercultural Conflict and Societal Integration" at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin. From 2000 - 01, Prof. Süssmuth presided over the‚ Independent Commission on Migration to Germany. She held several senior positions including Vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and Member of the German Federal Parliament. She has also been Director of "Woman and Society" and Professor at the Universities of Bochum and Dortmund.
Nele Verbruggen is currently working at the King Baudouin Foundation (based in Brussels, Belgium), as a project officer on migration and integration issues. Prior to joining KBF, she was coordinator of PICUM (Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants) from its establishment in 2000 until 2005. She has also served brief assignments as a researcher in the field of immigrant integration, at the Migration Policy Group and at the University of Ghent (Belgium).
Jakob von Weizsäcker is a research fellow at Bruegel, the Brussels based think tank. With his work on European immigration policy,
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he coined the term “Blue Card” for a European scheme to attract high-skilled immigrants. He joined Bruegel from the World Bank in Washington (2002-2005) where he was Country Economist for Tajikistan. Previously, he worked for the Federal Economics Ministry in Berlin (2001-2002) where he headed the office of a junior minister and Vesta, a venture capital firm (2000-2001). Before that, he held research positions at the Center for |
Economic Studies in Munich and CIRED in Paris. His research interests include immigration, social insurance, ageing and economic development.
James Wickham is the Director of the ERC and Jean Monnet
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Professor of European Labour Market Studies in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. He has researched and published on Irish industrialisation and labour market issues as well as on transport and mobility. Main interests include high technology industry and high skill labour markets, equal opportunities, employment and transport, European employment policy. He currently directs the project Migrant Careers and Aspirations within the Trinity Immigration Initiative. |
Michele Wucker is Executive Director of the New York City-based World Policy Institute, a non-partisan centre for progressive
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global policy analysis and thought leadership. She received a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on changing views of citizenship, exclusion, and belonging. She is author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (Public Affairs 2006/2007) and Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang, 1999/2000). |
Ms. Wucker lectures frequently about international migration trends, globalization, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, emerging market economies, and Latin American and Caribbean politics. Formerly Latin America bureau chief for International Financing Review, she has written for many U.S. and international publications. Ms. Wucker has been a source on immigration issues for major U.S. and international media. She is a Fellow of the RSA and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Authors Guild, and PEN.
