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Ph.D candidate in Sociology, Umeå University.

Doctora en Economía. MBA y Magister en Gerencia de Proyectos de Ingeniería. Economista
Adicionalmente, capacitada en cursos del BCR; la Universita de Trento -Italia. Ha desarrollado proyectos e investigaciones económicas en diversas empresas del medio. Actualmente Directora de la Carrera Profesional de Economía.
Experiencia profesional en el desarrollo de proyectos internacionales y nacionales de alto impacto en el desarrollo del país. Colaboradora Externa de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo y la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones.
Especialidades: mercado laboral, movilidad laboral, y actualmente trabajando el tema de Migraciones Internacionales y Remesas. Tercera Misión.

Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). She studied Slavic Languages and Cultures, European Studies and History in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. Venken earned her PhD in 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her habilitation in 2018 at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been a Principal Investigator of eight research projects funded in four European countries. Venken joined the University of Luxembourg in November 2019 after a Visiting Scholarship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg / Institute of Advanced Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and an Attract Brains for Brussels Fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). Her main research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science.

Professor of migration history

Alessandra Venturini is full professor at the University of Turin, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Migration Studies www.europeanmigrationstudiesjmc.unito.it and president of the Diploma in Migration Studies at the University of Turin and Associate and former Deputy director of the Migration Policy Center at the EUI, Florence, co-chair of the G20 Migration section, board member of the Collegio Caro Alberto, IZA Fellow. She extensively worked on the economic approach to migration: the migration choice, the effects in the destination and sending countries in particular in the Mediterranean one. She worked on the effectiveness of migration and integration policies. Recently her research focus also on Migrants consumption of cultural goods as driver on integration. She visited many Universities and research center and is expert for the EU Commission.

Dr. Marcia Vera Espinoza is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University. She is also a researcher in CAMINAR (Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas). Her research and teaching seat at the intersection of development, political and social geography, with a focus on migration, forced displacement, and Latin America. Marcia is particularly interested in the study of migration and refugee dynamics, experiences, and governance in Latin America.