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I am specialised in migration, and have worked on a large range of migration, integration and refugee issues. Multilingual, with an international education and extensive work experience with an international organisation, my experience covers international cooperation and diplomacy, strategy development, and migration governance, policy and research. I have also worked at grassroots level with migrants and refugees. I have excellent academic credentials and have authored or contributed to a number of publications in the field of migration. I am driven by a passion for migration and those who move and for the big questions that arise from migration: are humans by nature sedentary or nomadic? Should migration be about the freedom of the individual or about the benefit to society? What do migration and diversity mean for the future of the nation-state, borders, and identities?

PhD Sociological Studies student @ The University of Sheffield. My research interests are: Asylum, Non-religiosity, Migration and Human Rights.

Steffen Pötzschke is a research associate at the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim (Germany) and deputy team lead of the GESIS Panel (department Survey Design and Methodology). Steffen is also a corresponding member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. His research interests include international migration and mobility, transnationalism, integration, methods of migration research, and survey design.

Arnau Poy is currently a PhD Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Barcelona. From the ethnographic tradition of anthropology, his PhD research focuses on the governance of the asylum seekers' reception conditions in Spain. From a multisituated perspective, it explores the experiences of those asylum seekers who are excluded from the Spanish state reception system.

Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence

Journalist, writer and essayist, reporting on around forty countries mainly in Africa and Middle East. Collaborating with many newspapers and magazines, she is the author of various books and publications. She has acquired a specialization in migration and human trafficking. Reputed for her knowledge on these issues and her commitment in favour of the victims, she was invited to speak at the Quirinale the Presidential residence in Rome, on 8 March 2019 and in May she has being appointed as Knight of the Republic by the Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
Publicist journalist since 1991, professional since 1998 (enrolled on the Professional Order of Journalists in Lombardia), she also collaborate with the Catholic University of Milano and is the curator of cultural events and exhibitions.

Riccardo Pozzo M.A. Università di Milano (1983), PhD Universität des Saarlandes (1988), Habilitation Universität Trier (1995). In 1996 he went to the U.S. to teach German Philosophy at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. In 2003 he came back to Italy to take up the Chair of the History of Philosophy at the Università di Verona. In 2019, he was appointed to the Chair of the History of Philosophy at Università di Roma Tor Vergata. From 2009 to 2012, he was Director of the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas of the National Research Council of Italy. From 2012 to 2017, he was Director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council of Italy.Currently vice-president of the Institut International de Philosophie and national expert of the horizon 2020 Program Committee Configuration Research Infrastructures.