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Adjei, Elizabeth
Altmaier, Peter
Annadif, Mahamat S.
Attir, Mustafa Omar
Baldwin-Edwards, Martin
Bayley, Hugh
Bird, Michael
Cassarino, Jean-Pierre
Crane, Melinda
Costella, Pippo
Diome, Fatou
Diouf, Yayi Bayam
El Asri, Hakam
Etienne, Francis |
Ferrer Muñoz, Manuel
Fücks, Ralf
Gunnesch, Carla
Lahlou, Mehdi
Landau, Loren
Latif, Nehad Abdel
Lutterbeck, Derek
Müller, Kerstin
Nouripour, Omid
Pombo, Manuel
Roesler, Klaus
Seeger, Viola
Shri, DJ Badmarsh & VJ Oli Sorrentino
Simon, Julien
Van Houtum, Henk |
Elizabeth Adjei is the Director of Ghana Immigration Service and is the first woman in Ghana, to be appointed Head of the Immigration Enforcement. She is
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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.
Peter Altmaierhas been parliamentary state secretary since 2005
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in the Ministry of the Interior and has been a Member of the Bundestag since 1994. Between 1990 and 1994 he worked for the European Commission, amongst others as general secretary for the Administrative Commission of the European Communities. In the Bundestag, he has been member of the legal and the European affairs committee. He served on the European |
Convention for a draft treaty for a constitution and the European Convention for a Charter of Fundamental Rights. Since 2006, he is chairman of the German section of the Union of European Federalists.
Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif
is Ambassador of the African Union at the European Union,
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and in this function also represents the ACP Group of States in Brussels. He was Secretary of State of Agriculture from 1989 to 1990, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1997 and 2003, and afterwards as Cabinet Director of the Republic of Chad. In 2006, he was advisor of the Chairman of the Commission of the African Union. Before taking on governmental responsibilities, he worked at the telecommunications |
department of the National Office of Posts and Telecommunications (ONTP) and was a leading member of the National Liberation Front/Democratic Revolutionary Council (FROLINAT/CDR), amongst others as Second Vice-President from 1985 to 1988. He holds degrees in telecommunications engineering and in economics, banking and finance.
Mustafa O. Attir
is Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Sustainable
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Development Research at the University of Tripoli, Libya, as well as President of the Arab Sociological Association. Holding degrees from the University of Tripoli, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Minnesota, he has been appointed to numerous academic positions in Libya, among them vice dean and president of the University of Libya, and several visiting professorships in the USA. |
Martin Baldwin-Edwards
is co-founder and Co-Director of the Mediterranean Migration Observatory, Panteion University, Athens (since 1999) and a Research Associate of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna. He is scientific co-ordinator of the advisory project (REGINE) for the European Commission DG Justice on ‘Study on practices in the area of regularisation of illegally staying third-country nationals in the Member States of the EU’, and is the country expert on Greece and Cyprus for the ICMPD PROMINSTAT project on migration statistics. In recent years, he has served s a consultant or advisor on migration issues in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Balkan regions for UNDP, the European Commission training seminars for diplomats.
Hugh Bayley
is the Labour Member of Parliament for the City of York since 1992. Before entering politics, he worked for the trade union NALGO, set up
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and ran the International Broadcasting Trust, making films about the environment and international development issues, and worked as lecturer in Social Policy and later research fellow in Health Economics at York University. He served as a junior Minister at the Department of Social Security from 1999 to 2001 when he was appointed to serve as a member of the House of Commons International Development |
Select Committee and was re-appointed to this Committee in 2005.He is a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association as well as Chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and Chair of the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group. Married with two children, he lives in York.
Michael Bird
has been Director of the British Council in Germany since 2005.
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He contributed to the creation of the British Council’s current strategy for Europe and serves on the British Council’s Europe and North America Programmes Board. He is also the Project Director for the Migrant Integration Policy Index. Michael studied at Cambridge, Harvard and Voronezh Universities. After joining the British Council in 1985, he was posted to Moscow at the time of glasnost and perestroika. In 1991 he moved to Brussels, where he advised UK universities
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and research organisations on EU research and mobility programmes. In 1993 he set up a new British Council operation in St Petersburg and extended its outreach to much of North-West Russia. In 1997 he moved to Kyiv, where as Director of the British Council in Ukraine he co-located the British Council with the Goethe-Institut. From 2001 to 2005 he was Director of the British Council in his native Scotland, where devolved government is creating new dimensions for international cultural relations
Jean-Pierre Cassarino
is currently coordinating the Multi-sector Programme on Labour
Furthermore, while at the RSCAS, he co-directed, together with Prof. Rainer Bauböck, the Migration Working Group: an open and multidisciplinary seminar for doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers working on migration issues.
Pippo Costella
has worked on children and youth issues with several NGOs,
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international agencies and institutions in the Middle East, South East Asia, and Europe. His experience involves inter alia shaping strategies and programmes for the protection of children from different forms of exploitation and abuse, programmes and initiatives addressing children in war and emergencies, as well as the psycho-social human rights dimension in the migration phenomena. From 2004 to 2008 he was a member |
of the Expert Group on Trafficking in Human Beings of the EU Commission. He now collaborates with Italian NGO On the Road on the development of international programmes, and works as an independent consultant for organisations and institutions among others the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Central Service of the Protection System for asylum seekers and refugees. He is founder and President of the Italian Section of Defence for Children International and member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute on Children Rights).
Melinda Crane
is a journalist currently working for Deutsche Welle TV
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where she presents the political talk show „Quadriga”. Additionally, she produces “Global Players”, a show on global economic and geopolitical issues presented by Sabine Christiansen on CNBC. She has studied history, law, and political economy at Brown, Harvard Law Scholl, and the Fletcher |
School of Law and Diplomacy from where she holds a PhD. Subsequently, she worked as a consultant for the secretariat of ECOSOC, the UN’s economic and social council, but soon turned to journalism. She worked for numerous US and German TV networks, such as PBS or ARD, and wrote for The Boston Globe, New York Times Magazine, and Christian Science Monitor, amongst others. Born in the USA, she now lives in Berlin.
Fatou Diome
is a French-Senegalese writer. She was born in 1968
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in the Senegalese fishing village of Niodior and lives since 1994 in Strasbourg. She studied literature and taught at the University of Strasbourg, where she currently writes also her doctoral dissertation. Between 2004 and 2006 Fatou Diome was presenter for the monthly literature programme Nuit Blanche on French TV. Her works include La préférence nationale (2001), The Belly of the Atlantic (2003), for which she was awarded numerous prices across Europe, and her most recent Kétala (2006).
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Yayi Bayam Diouf
is President of the Women’s Association against Illegal Migration,
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a non-governmental organisation based in Thiaroye, a coastal city close to the capital Dakar. The organisation, which has spread nationally and is organised into 34 chapters, is active with awareness raising campaigns both against illegal emigration and human trafficking as well as for social and economic development more generally. Apart from her work for the Association, Mrs. Diouf is a member of the Chamber of Commerce |
in Dakar, of the Women’s Consultative Committee of Senegal, and of the Development Committee of the Pinike department.
Hakam El Asri
is head of the ‘Partnership for labour migration management’ project, implemented by GIP International section within the French Labour Ministry. The project is set in the framework of thematic EU programs - migration and asylum- and assists several sub-Saharan countries in organizing and promoting labour migration within the region and to EU member states. Mr. El Asri was previously in charge of multilateral cooperation within Pôle emploi (French public employment service) and designed and implemented several benchmark and capacity building projects in Maghreb and central Europe countries. He holds master’s degrees in economic and social forecasting as well as in management and administration.
Francis Etienne
is Director of Immigration at the Ministry of Immigration,
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Integration, National Identity, and Solidaire Development. Before joining this ministry, he occupied numerous administrative and diplomatic positions amongst others at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Consul General in Stuttgart/Germany, as Director of Studies at the Ecole national d’administration (ENA) in Strasbourg/Paris, as Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in Canberra/Australia, at the French Permanent Representation at the European Communities, |
and at the Ministry for Cooperation. He holds degrees from the Sorbonne, Sciences Po, and the ENA.
Manuel Ferrer Muñoz
is an academic historian and since 2003 General Coordinator of the Centro Europeo de Estudios sobre Flujos Migratorios in Las Palmas,
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Gran Canaria/Spain. In his capacity as General Director, he is also head of the Immigration Project at the Chamber of Commerce in Las Palmas, and has established close links with Mauritania and Colombia, the main sending states for migration to the Canary Islands. His frequent stays in Nuadibu/Mauritani to investigate clandestine migration have yielded severalstudies as well as the documentary film Cayuco. |
A specialist on the history of the Second Spanish Republic, Mr. Ferrer Muñoz has done research and taught at the
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) between 1994 and 2003. He holds a PhD from the University of Navarra and a
Licenciatura from the University of Granada.
Ralf Fücks
is Co-President of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. He studied social sciences, economics, and political science, and was active in the student movements in Heidelberg and Bremen.
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In 1985 he was elected to the Bremen state parliament. He served as Co-President for the national Green Party in 1989/90. Since 1996, he is a member of the executive board of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. The primary focus of his work is on |
sustainable development, reshaping the welfare state, migration and integration, the future of European integration, and international politics. In 2000 he was appointed as a member of the non-partisan Commission on Migration of the Federal Government. He is a regular contributor to numerous newspapers and political periodicals and co-author to numerous books.
Carla Gunnesch
is a freelance film director. Born in 1974 in Bucharest/Romania,
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she was raised in Heidelberg and Cologne. In Berlin she studied economics with a focus on labour markets and spent time also in London and at Stanford University. After receiving her degree, she studied film in Cologne and Hamburg. In the following, she worked as script editor and project manager for OMD media agency/Hamburg, and realised projects for the SFB programme/Berlin. |
“I Broke my Heart – Paradies EUropa” is her first full-length documentary. She currently works on a portrait of a film music composer.
Henk van Houtum
is Associate Professor of Geopolitics and Political Geography the Dutch
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national government, and the EU. Since 1997, he is affiliated to the Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen. In 1998, he founded there with Martin van der Velde the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, which they jointly direct. Between 2001 and 2006 he coordinated the research programme in the department of Human Geography, part of the research programme "Governance and Places ". In addition, as of 2001 he is co-editor of the |
Journal of Borderlands Studies. and Headof the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research. In addition, he is editor of the Journal of Borderlands Studies of the Association of Borderlands Scholars (ABS). He is an expert in the field of the philosophical ontology and (im)morality of borders, identity and migration into the EU. Recent publications include: H. van Houtum and F. Boedeltje (2009), Europe's shame, Death at the borders of the EU, Antipode, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp 226–230 and Houtum, H. van and Pijpers, R. (2007), The European Union as a Gated Community: The Two-faced Border and Immigration Regime of the EU, Antipode , March 2007.
Loren B. Landau
is Director of the Forced Migration Studies Programme at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published
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on human mobility, development, and sovereignty in the academic and popular press and is currently co-directing a comparative project on migration and urban transformation in Southern and Eastern Africa. He also serves on the executive committee of the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA), a national advocacy network, and has consulted for the South African Human Rights Commission, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UNDP, |
the French Development Agency (AFD), and others. He holds a Masters in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ambassador Nehad Abdel Latif
is the Secretary General of the Permanent Secretariat for the
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Implementation of the Egypt - EU 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.
Mehdi Lahlou
has been professor of economics at the l’Institut National
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de Statistique et l’Economie Appliquée, INSEA, in Rabat/Morocco since 1993. He has done research and taught at both INSEA and the l’Ecole des Sciences de l’information (ESI), Rabat, since the early 80s and specialises in finance, , knowledge economics, Moroccan history, and economic history. Moreover, he works as a consultant for several Moroccan minstries, as well as GTZ, the Worldbank, and the EU, amongst others. In this context, he has also conducted numerous studies |
and published widely on questions of migration and development in North Africa.
Derek Lutterbeck
joined MEDAC (Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies)
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at University of Malta in 2006 as lecturer in international history and deputy director. Previously he worked as a programme coordinator at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, where he was responsible for a training programme for junior Swiss diplomats, as well as for the Centre’s training activities in southern Mediterranean countries. Before that, he worked |
as a consultant for the International Organisation for Migration and the International Labour Organisation, as a lecturer for the Diplomatic Studies Programme of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and as a researcher for a three-year project on Swiss foreign policy funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Kerstin Müller
has been a Member of the German Bundestag for Alliance 90/Greens
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since 1994. She has been a member of the Greens since 1986, was head of the party in North Rhine-Westphalia, and led the parliamentary group from 1994 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2005 she was Minister of State in the Federal Foreign Office. She sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Bundestag and is foreign policy spokeswoman for Alliance 90/The Greens, focussing presently particularly on Africa, |
the Middle East, and Peacekeeping. She holds a law degree from the University of Cologne.
Omid Nouripour
has been a member of the German Parliament since
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September 2006, taking over the seat of former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer. He is the spokesperson of the Federal working Committee on Migrants and Refugees of the Green Party Before becoming member of the German Parliament, he worked as an assistant to a |
Member of the European Parliament and as journalist for one of Germany’s largest newspapers. From 1999 until 2003 he was the spokesperson of the youth organisation of the Green Party in Hessen. He studied German philology, political science and law, as well as philosophy and macroeconomics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz. Born in Teheran/Iran, he lives in Germany since aged 13 and has both Iranian and German citizenship.
Manuel Pombo Bravo
is a diplomat and currently Special Representative of the
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Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Head of the IOM Spanish Mission. Previously, he was Ambassador at Large of Spain for Humanitarian and Social Affairs, coordinating relations with humanitarian organisations within and outside the United Nations. Also, he was Head of the Middle East section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, |
with special responsibilities for the Iraq and Iran portfolios, organising the Iraq Donors Conference. He was Spain’s ambassador in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, in Nigeria, Benin and Sierra Leon, and held diplomatic positions in Tripoli, Buenos Aires, and Malta. He holds a philosophy degree from Aquinas University, Rome and Complutense University, Madrid, and a law degree from the same university, as well as master in International Relations from the Diplomatic School of Spain.
Klaus Rösler
has been the Director of Operations Division of Frontex Agency in
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Warsaw since September 2008. Before joining Frontex, he served for over 30 years in the German Federal Police (formerly Bundesgrenzschutz). His main functions at senior management level included: Deputy Head of Federal Border Police Battalion (in ‘89/’90);Senior Instructor on operational management at the Federal Border Police Academy (from 1990-1995); Head of Federal Border Police Office at Munich |
Airport (1996-2001); Senior Consultant with the Federal Ministry of the Interior (2001-2002); from 2003-2004, Head of border issues branch during EUROPOL mission PROXIMA (FYROM); and from 2005-2008 as Head of the Federal Police District Office at Schwandorf.
Viola Seeger
has been program officer Society and Culture in the
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Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany since 1996. At present she is in charge of programs in the fields of volunteering, integration of migrants and international migration. She studied international economics at the former Berlin-Karlshorst University of Economics. In the 1980s she taught international economic relations in Angola before working for foreign trade companies in Mozambique. |
After the political turnaround in the German Democratic Republic in 1989, she trained as social worker, introduced international drug prevention programs into Germany and was program officer at the Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences, Berlin.
Shri, DJ Badmarsh & VJ Oli Sorrentino
are musicians from London/UK. DJ Badmarsh (whose name means ‘rascal’ in Hindi) and tablas-trained multi-instrumentalist Shri (born as Shrikanth Sriram in Bombay) joined forces in the late 1990s. They recorded two albums together, Dancing Drums in 1998, and Signs in 2001, becoming world famous for their unique blend of electronic dance music with Indian sounds and live instruments. At the conference and on invitation by the British Council, they come together for a rare special appearance along with a third collaborator - VJ Oli Sorrentino. Their evening performance promises to be a roller-coaster ride with Shri on tablas, bass, Indian flutes, vocals, percussion and effects, DJ Badmarsh on decks (Breakbeat, Drum & Bass, Dubstep,) and Oli working up some intense visuals and moods onstage.
Julien Simon
is Programme Manager of the Dialogue on Mediterranean Transit
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Migration (MTM) and the Interactive Map on Migration (i-Map) at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMDP); an international organisation based in Vienna. As part of his duties as head of the MTM Secretariat he is in particular responsible for relations with France, Europol and Interpol. He has authored a number of publications for instance on irregular transit migration and mixed migration flows and is a |
specialist for migration routes and flows for Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.
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