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Dr. Alexander W. Wiseman has more than 25 years of professional experience working with government education departments, university-based teacher education programs, community-based professional development for teachers, and as a classroom teacher in both the U.S. and East Asia. Dr. Wiseman examines and informs educational policy development, leads strategic planning workshops, provides evidence-based training programs, speaks internationally and presents extensively in the areas of refugee and forced im/migrant education, evidence-based decision-making, teacher preparation and professional development, strategic planning, system assessment and reform, education policy, change management, equitable educational access for girls and boys, institutional capacity building, school-to-work transition, and civic education. Dr. Wiseman's research uses large-scale education datasets on math and science education, information and communication technology (ICT), teacher preparation, professional development and curriculum as well as school principal's instructional leadership activity. He serves on the editorial board of Educational Administration Quarterly and Educational Researcher and is the author or editor of more than 100 articles, chapters, and books. He is the series editor of the volume series, International Perspectives on Education and Society, and the senior editor of the journal, FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education.

Arkadiusz Wiśniowski is a Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics, University of Manchester, UK. His interests are in integrating traditional and new forms of data to better measure populations, especially international migration. He also has general interest in statistical modelling and forecasting.

Verena Wisthaler is a senior researcher at EURAC Research, Italy. Previously she was a post-doc researcher at the University of Neuchâtel, within the SNSF project NCCR on the move – the migration-mobility nexus, and external lecturer at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Leicester (2016). During her PhD she was visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Corte (FR) and the University of Edinburgh (UK). Her research focusses on immigrant integration at the regional and local level. She has published in JEMS, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Politika etc. Her PhD has been awarded the 2017 ECPR Jean Blondel PhD Prize.

Nils Witte is Research Fellow at the Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany. He works for the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study. His research interests include migration & labour markets, ethnic boundaries, and research methods.

I am a research officer at the International Labour Organization (ILO). I work in a joint project with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) focusing on child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking. I obtained my PhD in Economics from University College Dublin in 2020, where I analysed the labour market outcomes of the asylum population and migrants. My main research interests are migration, labour, and development economics.

I have earned my PhD from the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong in 2015 With the doctoral thesis "The Management Strategies of Advocacy-oriented Social Service Nonprofit Organisations in Hong Kong". Prior to this, I have a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Singapore, and my bachelor degree is in Economics and Politics from the University of Durham. I have a broad research interest surrounding the topics of civil society, nonprofit management and policy study; also experienced in both quantitative and qualitative methods in political science.

Karen is a social worker and a Ph.D. student based in Vancouver. Her research interests include how culture, race, and immigration intersect with aging, and the lived experiences of older immigrants and refugees and their families.