Experts Database

see: http://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/zespol/marek-okolski-2/

Rickard Olseke has more than twenty years of professional experience in the fields of migration and asylum, human rights, and humanitarian affairs. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Political Science with specialization in public policy from the University of Gothenburg. Most recently, he has served as Senior Policy Advisor at the Swedish Red Cross, co-ordinating advocacy activities.

As a consultant and independent expert, Mr. Olseke has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the European Commission, the Danish Red Cross, the Swedish Red Cross, and Save the Children Sweden.

He has extensive experience in developing policies and guidelines, drafting opinions and position papers, analyzing national and international law and jurisprudence, developing and evaluating project proposals, conducting inquiries, advocating with government agencies and political decision-makers, and supporting European level co-operation and networking.

MSc. in International Economic Relations. Ph.D.(c) in Political Sciences and Public Administration at University of Warsaw. From 2018 to 2022 worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Lima and taught in the Double Degree program with the University of London. Also, conducted classes in diverse Latin American universities within Cladea Coil, and participated as a speaker in conferences in Belgium, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Poland, and the United States. Her Ph.D. dissertation is titled: ¨Integration of Venezuelan Migrants in the Labour Market of Lima: the Role of the Civil Society Organizations.¨

Laila Omar is a Fung Global Fellow (Postdoctoral Research Associate) at Princeton University, with primary research interests in international migration and qualitative methods. More specifically, she is interested in the integration process of refugee and immigrant mothers and youths from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in North America. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 2023. Her thesis, “Times of Uncertainty and Future Projections for Forced Migrants: The Case of Syrian Refugee Mothers and Youths in Canada,” examines the temporal experiences and future projections of Syrian refugee mothers and teenagers after their resettlement in Canada.

Neslihan ONDER-OZDEMIR completed her postgraduate education at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nigel Harwood in the UK. Her research interests are English for specific/academic purposes, medical education, discourse analysis, vocational English, academic writing, and corpus linguistics.