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Kate is a migration, gender, and security expert who balances life as an academic-practitioner. Kate’s specializes in migration to Eastern Europe, and currently lives in Romania for her research on Third Country National integration. Her lifelong advocacy has been sexual and reproductive health and rights, and she has worked in particular with women and migrants in Manila, Canberra, Rome, Brussels, Paris, Lyon, and Cluj-Napoca. Kate holds a Ph.D. in political theory from the Luiss Guido Carli and a Ph.D. in political and social sciences from the ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles.

PhD Candidate at the CEU Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations (Public Policy Track). Her research focuses on migrants’ political activism, critical migration governance, and contentious politics. She is currently a chair of the CEU Migration Research Group. Before her PhD studies, she worked as a consultant at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and for the SIRIUS project (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets) at Charles University in Prague.

Martha Ecker is currently working on her PhD thesis with the title "inclusion of refugees - opportunities and barriers for resilient development in Austrian regions" at the Centre for Regional Science, Department for Spatial Planning, TU Vienna University, where she also works as a university assistant. In addition to this she is involved in research and teaching on the topics of sustainable urban development, regional development and integration, and research methods.
Before that she completed her Master's in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy at the Vienna University of Economics, writing her thesis with Dr. Wolfgang Lutz on micro-data based education-specific population prejections for the country of Tanzania.
She has also studied Economics and Internation Development Studies, and has a deep interest in issues that demand interdisciplinary approaches.

John Ede has been President/CEO since 2013 at Ohaha Family Foundation, a Nigeria based NGO working to alleviate human suffering, deliver social protection and lifesaving interventions to vulnerable groups. He has been engaged in social protection and humanitarian work for around 2 decades, providing leadership, policy advocacy, partnership and programme management in conflicts and forced displacement settings for Protection of Civilians, promoting gender equality, and increasing access to healthcare in the region through different NGOs and networks. He is an invitee to the Grand-Bargain-Localization-Workstream, Inter-Agency-Standing-Committee-Result-Group-3, co-facilitator Country-Level-Dialogue-on-localization, co-chair Advocacy Working Group Charter-for-Change, panellist UNDSS Security Symposium, 4-time speaker selection committee member UN-NGLS. John holds a degree in Geography from University-of-Jos-Nigeria, advanced diploma from University-of-Geneva, trained GenderPro George-Washington-University, Certificate in Civilian services Peace-Operations-Training-Institute-(POTI), INSSA Certified Security-Risk-Management-Country-level, Austrian-Study-Centre-for-Peace-and-Conflict-Resolution-(ASPR) IPT Master Class Gender, Intersectionality and Peacebuilding

Mr. Ferry is a Lecturer of nursing in the department of community health nursing, faculty of nursing at Airlangga University in Surabaya, Indonesia. He holds PhD in nursing which focusing on Indonesian nurses migration. In addition, he also had been involved in various projects within the area of Human Resources for Health at the Ministry of Health of Indonesia. His research interests include: Health Policy, Community Health, Maternal and Child Health, and Nurse Migration.

Dr. Itzel Eguiluz holds PhD in International Migration from UCM / FOG-Madrid and is a MSc in
Reproductive Health from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP). Her research
is manly about migration and global health. In 2018 she participated as consultant for different
projects as a seminar for UNHCR about Research methodologies for refugees and forced
migration, the Symbolic Elections for Foreigners in Mexico at the Instituto Mora, among others.
Dr. Eguiluz is a professor at the TEC CCM and the Instituto Mora, and is an invited professor for
the LGBTQ Communities, Public Health and Migration in Mexico program at the Washington
University. She is a mentor and Group Leader for the NYAS 1000 Girls 1000 Futures program.
She has presented her work in several Conferences as Emerging Adulthood 2013, 2015, 2017 &
2019, LASA 2019, 10th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health, among others. Since October 2020, Dr. Itzel Eguiluz is a postdoctoral fellow at the IIEc, UNAM.

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Before, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in Comparative Political Economy at the University of Konstanz. I obtained my PhD in Social Policy from the University of Kent and my BA/MA in Sociology from the University of Hamburg. I was a visiting researcher at the Universities of Amsterdam, Aalborg, and Leuven.

My interdisciplinary research and teaching is driven by a fascination for how globalization and European social integration are shaping societies as well as how people react to these changes through their social and political attitudes and behavior. I investigate some of the main challenges in politics, such as social rights, the development of new social policies, migration, Euroscepticism, and the increasing inequality in the wake of recent crises such as the financial crisis, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine.

I have received various international research grants and prizes for my academic work, and I am currently part of several (cross-national) research projects on these topics, including the Horizon 2020 project “The Future of European Social Citizenship”.

To find out more about my work, please visit my personal website and do not hesitate to contact me.