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Senior Director Alankrita Dayal is the North America Focal Point Lead for Experience Design at the United Nations, Migration Division.

She manages all digital initiatives spanning the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Contact her at alankrita.dayal@unmgcy.org

Since 2021 Phd Student of Territory, Risk & Public Policy’s - Coimbra University- Portugal, Creating solutions with an interdisciplinary background on High Arts Matters.
He is also specialised in materials has Painting, video, light, sound, music, sculpture …Concrete, Resins, Plastic, Clays … Since 1998 he was responsible by active social actions like Ascensor-informal group for art diffusion, 110 W for Porto European capital of culture, Caldas Late Night-open studios, Caldas da Rainha, 555 - association Rua do Almada 2005, Porto and, then later “Hotel 555”in Duque do Loulé 2010 and Passeio de Sao Lazaro Porto, till 2013. Silos Creative container in 2004 - Caldas da Rainha. Since 2017 he is the founder of Konsolidarte Internacional and now the first presentation of the Gab. of Cultural Action in Porto.

Since 2017 more complex and recently Culture Design Projects like “Konsolidarte internacional action of regenerative Cultural Education Model “ Timor Leste 2017. Started working for organisations at the age of 7 years old, part of the catholic Scouts, Consultant in Foundations and Non profit organisations like: APDES - Arcozelo, Portugal in 2008/09, OAK tree Foundation - Ba-Futuro in Dili Timor Leste, Xanana Gusmão Foundation- Timor Leste, External Consultant till December 2018 in U.S.A.The Asian Foundation- Dili, Timor Leste. Also work in communication company’s has art director or project manager. Founder and author, uses his artistic signature has R.Gritto since 2009, travel and lived long periods of time in USA - Califórnia, Mexico, Indonesia, Australia, Timor Leste, Macau and he is now based in Paris since 2019

I am a doctoral researcher investigating the mobilisations of South Asian diaspora in the UK. My work aims to explain why and how migrants (and their descendents) unite through civil society, media, activtist and development organisations or collectives. In doing so, I also address the conditions where unification is fragmented or strained. And lastly, I look to the impacts of diaspora mobilisations, at both the transnational and local levels.

Postdoc Guest Researcher at the University of Copenhagen with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Working on: internationalisation of education, valuation of international credentials, cosmopolitan capital, transnational social mobility, luxury hospitality industry and the role of Switzerland in the circulation of privileged groups.

Zeynep Demir (MSc) is a psychologist, researcher and lecturer. She works in the research group Socialization (Prof. Andreas Zick's Lab) at the Faculty of Educational Science and in the Research Networking Office of the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) Community, at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University (Germany). Her research focuses on migration, acculturation, discrimination, racism, and diversity. As part of her academic service work, she was the Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission at the Faculty of Educational Science. In the area of science communication, she is active as co-host of the award-winning academic podcast ReSearching Diversity Podcast.

My research interests focus on migration, identity and diasporas: the way communities perform, produce and reproduce belonging, and the spaces they create and recreate. My main areas of study cover Latin America and the Middle East, and the links between the two regions. I have done research in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. I am currently researching the Venezuelan migrations in the Americas. I am also one of the Leads for the Migration and Refugees Research Network at Oxford Brookes University.
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/networks/migration-and-refugees-rese…

Dr Johanne Devlin Trew joined the faculty of the School of Social & Policy Sciences, Ulster University in 2010. She has also held research and teaching posts in the School of History at Ulster , Queen's University Belfast, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Concordia University, Montreal. Her research focuses on migration and diaspora studies, especially in the context of societal unrest and violence, with an emphasis on life narrative methodology. She has been the recipient of several research grants as principal researcher and co-investigator, including five awards from the AHRC, and has served on its review college. With a background in IT, she has also been involved in the design of several digital humanities projects, such as the AHRC-funded digital resource, Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration.

Labour Migration and Integration Expert.
People first should be the basis for policies and measures.
Giovanni deals with immigration, legal advice, planning, management (operational and financial) and evaluation of programs for the social inclusion of the vulnerable groups. He is interested in migration policies, labour market inclusion policies (labour active policies, traineeships, employment services,) and socio-economic autonomy transition services for unemployed migrant workers, vulnerable families, children with educational and family difficulties, refugees and holders of other forms of protection.
Giovanni works with international organizations, central governments, local authorities (Regions, Municipalities) and other public and private entities. Giovanni has gained experience in the NGO and associations sector.
He gained experience in dealing with EU funded projects and relevant budget procedures.
Giovanni can speak English and Spanish.