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Dr. Karlijn Haagsman is currently Assistant Professor of Globalisation & Development at Maastricht University with a focus on Transnational Migration.

Karlijn has obtained a Bachelor and Master degree in Cultural Anthropology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, and subsequently completed a 2-year Research Master termed ‘Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism’ at the University of Utrecht. From 2010-2014 she was a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. Her PhD research focused on the effects of transnational parent-child separation on the well-being of Angolan and Nigerian migrant parents in the Netherlands and was part of the TCRAf_Eu project. After that she did a post-doc on the effects of mobility on the well-being of youth of migrant background as part of the MO-TRAYL Project.

Her expertise lies in transnationalism, transnational families, migration studies, family studies and migrant youth. Her work is based in migration sociology and cultural anthropology.

Brian J. Hall is a Professor of Global Public Health and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Health Equity at NYU Shanghai, Associated Full Professor at the School of Global Public Health, New York University, and an Associate Faculty Member in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Hall has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNAIDS, and collaborated with International NGOs to improve the health of diverse populations. Hall led the first community collaborative large-scale mixed-methods study of transnational Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers, which examined the social determinants of diverse health outcomes, including sexual, cardiometabolic, social, and mental health domains.

Hall is currently collaborating with the WHO on the regional framework for mental health in the Western Pacific Region, serving as an advisor on digital mental health. He is also a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission for Mental Health in China. Hall co-developed the Cultural Sections of the ICD-11 Neurological and Psychiatric Conditions and updated and expanded the Cultural material in the DSM-5-TR as a member of the DSM Working group on Culture.

Prof. Hall specialized in epidemiological methods and public health during a two-year NIMH
T32 Fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology in the Department of Mental Health, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH). In 2013 he moved full-time to China through a Fogarty Global Health Fellowship (UMJT Consortium), hosted by the University of North Carolina Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease, JHBSPH, and the Sun Yat-sen University School of Public Health.

In 2017 Hall was the inaugural Global Mental Health Fellow of the World Health Organization,
and in 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (D52:
International & D12: Clinical). Hall’s dedication to global health mentoring was recognized by a Faculty Excellence in Advising Award, from the Center for Global Health, at the JHBSPH, also in 2019.

Hall has co-authored more than 320 journal articles, chapters, and other publications, is a highly cited researcher (1% globally, Clarivate Web of Science), received nearly $3million in funding, and seven early career awards, including the Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award, ISTSS, and the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. He was inducted into Delta Omega Honorary Society for Public Health in 2022.

Experienced social researcher with a background in politics and international relations as well as regional experience in the Western Balkans, particularly post-conflict issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Applying qualitative methods to understand the global interactions of political organisations with a special focus on transnational networks resulting from migration.

I am an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow. My thesis focuses on the political and institutional effects of long-term remittance dependency in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. I am associated with the ERC's MOBSANCT research project and LSE IDEAS foreign policy think-tank. Prior to doctoral studies, I completed an MSc in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lan Anh Hoang is Associate Professor in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne. She received her MA and PhD in Development Studies from the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, Singapore, before joining the University of Melbourne in January 2011. Lan was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore in 2013-2014.

Her research has been published in many prestigious journals such as Gender and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, Global Networks, Population, Space and Place, Geoforum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Asian Studies Review, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is author of ‘Vietnamese migrants in Russia: mobility in times of uncertainty’ (Amsterdam University Press 2020) and co-editor of ‘Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances, and the Changing Family in Asia' (2015) and ‘Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia’ (2019).

Lan’s current project examines brokerage and migrant networks in the Vietnam-Australia migration corridor. She is Regional Editor (Mainland Southeast Asia) of Asian Studies Review, Thematic Editor (Migration) of Development in Practice, and Associate Editor of Springer's Global Vietnam book series. Lan co-edited the Palgrave Macmillan book series 'Anthropology, Change, and Development' from 2013 to 2021 and is currently sitting on the International Advisory Board of Feminist Theory. She was a development worker in Vietnam before entering academia.

With over twenty years’ experience in international migration policy, communications, public affairs and lobbying, Glen is the founder of the think tank Free Trade Europa, which focuses on promoting free trade, openness and the rule of law within the European Union and internationally. Glen also leads a stakeholder initiative on the platform economy, future of work and migration in the Nordics. Glen is also the host of "The New Gig": a podcast on - and for - migrants and the dynamic workforce of today.

Glen was previously responsible for the Nordics, Baltics and Central & Eastern Europe within an international communications agency. Prior to this he worked for the European institutions as well as governments, blue-chip international companies, start-ups and NGOs as a lobbyist, strategist and communications advisor.

Glen was also the Secretary General of a European trade association for five years. Today, Glen is a respected commentator on European affairs, as well as a frequent presenter, moderator and panellist at European policy events. Glen is also a trainer and coach on technology, migration, labour force, transport and sustainability policy as well as communications techniques for the public and private sectors.

Nicole is a postdoctoral researcher at SPAIS, University of Bristol, working with Prof. Katharine Charsley and Dr Helena Wray (University of Exeter) on the ESRC-funded Research Project: 'UK-EU couples after Brexit: Migrantization and the UK family immigration regime' (2023-2026).

Nicole was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Life & Environmental Sciences, working with Prof. Nick Gill on ASYFAIR (2017 - 2022) – a project investigating asylum appeal courts in Europe. Nicole was the lead researcher of the project, and - as a German native speaker - responsible for conducting research in Germany and Austria. See www.asyfair.com.

Nicole completed her PhD in Anthropology Research at Brunel University London in 2017, conducting extensive ethnographic fieldwork with resettled refugees in the UK, focusing on community development and the practice/policy gap. Her MRes studies (Brunel University London, 2010) were concerned with alternative development strategies and education in South Asia, as well as utilizing qualitative research methods to measure and operationalize policy and development programmes. During her previous studies (BSc and DipHE), Nicole conducted research in migration, education and linguistics.