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Dr Simina is currently coordinating the work of Timisoara Centre for Migration and Mobility Studies (SISEC) located in Timisoara, Romania, the research centre which continued the migration related activity of the former Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence - part of the School of High Comparative European Studies (SISEC), West University of Timisoara (1995-2008).
Dr Simina is head of training at Civilian Deployable Capability (CDC Romania), an initiative aimed to support the Romanian authorities involved in the civilian capability development through training and creation of a pool of experts ready to be deployed to missions and operations under the EU, OSCE and UN auspices, in line with the Romanian foreign policy interest.
Previous experiences as immigration and border police officer at borders with Serbia and Hungary, legal adviser with Legal Department of MAI, personal adviser to state secretary for liaison with Parliament and European affairs, home affairs attaché at the Romanian Embassy to Japan and migration liaison officer in the framework of Regulation (EC) No.337/2004., and senior strategic planner with the General Directorate for Operational Management of the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs. His most recent professional experience has been the position of training manager (seconded national expert) at the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), Brussels.
Mr. Simina is Law graduate (Law Faculty of the Romanian Police Academy, Bucharest), holds an MA (High European Studies) from SISEC - West University of Timisoara and a PhD in Economics from the same University. Graduated the Romanian National College for Home Affairs (Strategic Management of Home Affairs) and attended the 7th CSDP High Level Course Konrad Adenauer 2011-20122 of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC).

Paddy is a Zambian national with over 16 years of professional experience as a Development Economist and Migration governance expert. Her work covers regional integration and governance. Her experience includes supporting NGOs, governments, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as well as UN agencies in programme formulation, implementation, undertaking research as well as monitoring and evaluation. She has worked with the European Commission, UN agencies (UNICEF, IOM, UNESCO), bilateral donors as well as consultancy firms as programme manager, coordinator and consultant. She holds a Master in Financial Economics from SOAS and BSC Development & Economics from LSE. She is fluent in English, French and Swahili. She has lived and worked in Zambia, Tanzania, China, Malaysia, and with missions to Ethiopia, Senegal, The Gambia, Kenya, South Africa among others. She is an advisory member of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) .

I am scholar of migration, transnational and translocal processes as linked to livelihoods, aspirations and identities. This research extends to climate change, rural-urban connectivities, societal engagement with new technologies, the role of diasporas and reconsiderations of the contested notion of development.

I am Head of Research at the Migration Policy Group, Brussels, Belgium. Previously, I worked as policy officer/consultant for the European Commission (DG Employment) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and as researcher for the Eindhoven University of Technology. I hold a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and University of Milan-Bicocca (joint degree). My research interests include comparative integration policies (in particular, in the EU), labour market integration of migrants (e.g. migrant entrepreneurship), and social network analysis.

Pedro Ponte e Sousa is a PhD candidate in Global Studies at the Department of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon (Portugal), since 2015. He is also researcher of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) since 2016.
In his PhD thesis he analyses the interactions between globalization, foreign policy, and global governance in Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece), under the supervision of Nuno Severiano Teixeira (FCSH-UNL, IPRI).
He holds a MA in History, International Relations, and Cooperation by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, obtained in 2015, with a thesis on political parties’ cleavages in contemporary Portuguese foreign policy. He also holds a BA in Languages and International Relations from the same institution, since 2013.
His main research interests include: foreign, security, and defense policy; Foreign Policy Analysis; diplomacy; (political) globalization; global governance; Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece).
He has over ten published research articles and book chapters and delivered dozens of presentations on these topics in national and international conferences.
He is member of international scientific organizations as UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies) and IAPSS (International Association for Political Science Students).

Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad is an FRQSC doctoral candidate in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University, Montreal. His research focuses on the constructions of diasporic masculinities among Bangladeshi men in Canada. He is also working as a research professional in the Research Chair on Gambling at Concordia University, Montreal, where he leads the research team on gender and gambling. Previously, he obtained an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where his thesis focused on the aftereffect of migration on the deconstruction of masculinities among Bangladeshi immigrant men in the United Kingdom. He also has an MSS and a BSS degree in Women and Gender studies from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been working as a faculty member in the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, since 2014 and is currently on study leave. He also has extensive experience workings as a consultant with various INGOs like ActionAid Bangladesh, NETZ Bangladesh, OXFAM and USAID/Bangladesh.

Anna Spiegel is a research associate at the Research and Teaching Unit on Economics and Work at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. She has carried out research on transnational mobility of people and knowledge in different world regions. In her research on translocal life worlds of female Bolivian migrants in the Global City Buenos Aires she concentrated on dance as a translocal practice. As a researcher in the VW funded Project “Negotiating Development: Translocal Gendered Spaces in Muslim Societies” and in her doctoral thesis she focused on the transnational negotiations of Women’s and Human Rights in Malaysia in the context of Islamisation. In her current research she works on the ambivalences and paradoxes of practiced elite cosmopolitanisms of executive expatriates employed in transnational corporations and their new forms of working, belonging and dwelling.

Her main research interests are: transnationalization and mobility, skilled and non-skilled migration, global negotiations of knowledge, global ethnography, belonging, transience