Experts Database

Bernard LUTETE DI LUTETE, from Democratic Republic of Congo. An Engineer and an International Traveller, with better Experiences and knowledge’s performed on Environment, International Diplomacy, Politics and Local Governance, on Human Rights and International Migration Issues. Reliable, lively and adaptable professional with a background in technical education, a self-starter, equally comfortable as a team leader. Well-developed inter-personal skills, Still looking for opportunities to utilize existing skills, to learn more and work to support by his best national and international organizations, CSO, United Nations, to help protect our environment, to keep our world safe from climate, Democracy crisis, humanitarian and Migrations issues. Has performed multiple studies as the International politics and Diplomacy with ROME MUN and Giovani Nel Mondo Association at Rome Italy, the International water Law with UNITAR and the University of Geneva, the Municipal Finances for Local Governance with the World Bank Group. Has worked and keeping working since many years with The United Nations Systems: with Save the Climat in ECOSOC Status , with DPI, UNECA, UNDP project implementation, UN REDD+, UNEP-EBAFOSA, Africa CSO, With others strong international organizations as Member of CIVICUS World Alliance; working to support the International Migration Systems with GFMD and MADE from Europe and CORMSA at South Africa, and has also actively contributed with his organization Save the Climat for the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration at Marrakech Morocco on December 2018, Actually working as the President and CEO of SAVE THE CLIMAT which is a NGO In Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC since 2014, and Associated with UN DPI since 2015, and he is also working as a Regional Organizing Partner for NGO Major Group for Central Africa and Francophone Countries, which also agreed to be Member of the United Nations the United Nations Network on Migration.

Migration Studies

I work as an assistant professor at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic. I am interested in the interplay between migration, cities and development. My current research projects revolve around the themes of highly skilled migration, migration governance, and return migration.

Magdalena is a Professor in Anthropology (UBA), with a master's degree in Latin American Literature (UNTEF), a diploma as Specialist in Digital Strategy (SAWI) currently pursuing a CAS in Civilian Peacebuilding Essentials (University of Basel & Swisspeace).
Magdalena has worked on human rights and minority rights, migrations, diasporas, comparative literature and literature and exile, and peacebuilding.
She has worked for the international cooperation sector in Communications and also in project management, within the UN System (UNFPA, UN-Migration/IOM), for a European project on Diasporas, and with grassroots organisations (AICRA, Mesemrom). She has also worked as a consultant in Switzerland and Latin America.
Her areas of expertise are institutional communications, communications for the humanitarian, digital strategy, storytelling, audiovisual creation, project management, and methodologies / research.

Sowmya Maheswaran is doing her PhD at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University (Berlin) and is a doctoral fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation. At the intersection of global and political anthropology, her dissertation deals with political subjectivities of dissidents and their cultures of resistance in violent contexts. Postcolonial negotiations and global entanglements of racism, nationalism, and migration/(im-)mobilities in war and post-war situations form her central lines of research. The ethnographic focus of the ongoing PhD project is on Tamil conflicts and struggles in Sri Lanka and related transnational diaspora movements.

I am interested in migration and development issues especially migrant workers and refugee issues. my current research about unprocedural migrant workers in Indonesia: pattern and causes.

Cigdem Manap is a Visiting Scholar at Brandenburg University of Technology. Before, she was an assistant professor at Department of Sociology, Suleyman Demirel University and Research Fellow at Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Her research and publications focus on international migration, refugees and asylum seekers, social exclusion, migration policies of Turkey and Europe.

I am an Associate professor of Political Science at the International relations institute of Cameroon (IRIC). Former PhD fellow at Sciences Po / CEVIPOF in Paris, France (2007-2010), I defended a PhD thesis entitled "The virtual citizenship and new forms of political participation of Cameroonian Immigrants in France". My teaching and research domains are Public Policies in Africa, Migration and Citizenship in Africa, Migration and Expertise, Social Crises, Migration and Cultures.

I have more than 15 years of work experience in international economics, migration, human capital and labour market. Over these years I have accumulated a wide work experience with a regional focus, not only in the Western Balkan countries, EU and EU-CEE, but also other EU neighbouring regions such as southern and Eastern neighbouring regions.