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Michał Schwabe is an Assistant Professor in the Collegium of World Economy, Department of European Integration and Legal Studies. He graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) in 2004, with major in international economics. He completed his full-time doctoral studies in 2010 and defended his Ph.D. thesis in 2011.
Michal is an author of over 20 peer-reviewed publications. Apart from teaching courses at the Warsaw School of economics, he was guest lecturer at HEC Paris, Nottingham-Trent University or KU Leuven. He was a speaker in numerous international conferences, including the International Metropolis Conference, Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America or the European Trade Study Group. His major research areas are international labor migration, competitiveness of economies on the global market, as well as macroeconomic effects of digital transformation.
Michał was a Dekaban-Liddle fellow at the University of Glasgow in 2012. He has also been awarded Warsaw School of Economic Rector’s prizes for his research as well as organizational achievements.
Apart from his academic work, Michal has vast experience in management consulting – in his professional career he worked for world’s leading brands as well as transnational organizations.

Gottfried Schweiger is a trained philosopher and works at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR), University of Salzburg, as a Senior Scientist since 2011. He is also member of the Migration and Mobility Research (MMG) Group at the University of Salzburg. At the CEPR he was also the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project "Social Justice and Child Poverty", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), from 2014 to 2017. Gottfried (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and chapters, (co-)edited volumes, and together with Gunter Graf he wrote two monographs on the philosophy of childhood (both with Palgrave Macmillan). Gottfried is co-founding editor of the Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie [Journal for Practical Philosophy] and of the Springer Book Series Philosophy and Poverty and of the Book Series Kindheit – Bildung – Erziehung. Philosophische Perspektiven [Childhood - Education - Upbringing. Philosophical Perspectives], published by J.B. Metzler. He is also associate editor of Palgrave Communications.

Together with Johannes Drerup, Gottfried is the coordinator of the Netzwerk Philosophie der Kindheit [Network Philosophy of Childhood] - a platform for philosophers and and interested reserachers working on questions of philosophy and childhood.

Furthermore, Gottfried has reviewed papers for several international journals including Journal of Poverty, Journal of Global Ethics, International Theory, Ethical Perspectives, and Review of International Studies.

Raphaela Schweiger is the Director of the Migration Program at the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Her expertise and passion lies in strengthening global governance and tackling urgent global challenges. At the Robert Bosch Foundation, she leads efforts related to global migration governance, climate mobility, the future of refugee and migrant protection, and the impact of technology on (migration) governance. She also contributes to other critical global issues, including climate change, peace and conflict, democracy, and inclusive societies. Raphaela is a 2023 Yale World Fellow. As a political scientist specializing in international relations and global governance, Raphaela has a substantial body of work that encompasses publications on global governance, migration, integration, conflict, climate change, and their interconnections. Before joining the Robert Bosch Foundation in 2015, she gained experience working with organizations such as SOS Children’s Villages, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the Kreisjugendring München-Stadt. Additionally, Raphaela serves as a board member of the Doris Wuppermann Foundation, a German institution dedicated to supporting youth-led initiatives that promote democracy and civic participation. She holds a doctorate (Dr. phil.) from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and pursued her studies in political science and law at the University of Munich, as well as international studies and peace and conflict studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, the Technical University Darmstadt, and the University Complutense de Madrid.

Research Professor at Universitat Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona, also associated with the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) in Brighton, UK. Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Co-Director of the INTEGRIM-Lab. PhD in Migration Studies (2018, University of Sussex) and degrees in Political Science and Sociology (University of Innsbruck). Previously Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna (project REvolTURN). My research focusses on the politics, practices, and challenges of governing international migration across different political and administrative levels, geographical contexts, and institutional settings. From an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, I study legal frameworks, everyday practices of policy implementation, and ways in which migrants perceive, use, bend, or resist the rules and restrictions imposed on their mobility and “integration”.

Helge Schwiertz is a postdoctoral research associate at the Chair of Sociology and Social Theory at Universität Hamburg and corresponding member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. His key research areas are social and political theory, theories of radical democracy, citizenship, and solidarity, social movements and urban protests, racism and migration. He leads the international research project "Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe »From Below«: Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies" and Transnational Networks" [ECSEuro] and is a co-editor of "movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies".

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