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Tamara Megaw has a Master of Arts in Development Studies (Critical Social Policy) from the International Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague. She works at the University for Technology Sydney’s Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS-ISF) on research addressing effectiveness of development aid and social inclusion. From 2017-2021, Tamara conducted applied research about women’s empowerment in refugee protection programs through UTS-ISF’s partnership with Act for Peace, The Border Consortium and OfERR. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney’s Southeast Asian Centre (SSEAC) on community-led protection approaches for forcibly displaced sexual and gender minorities in Southeast Asia.

Tamara is an experienced qualitative researcher and evaluator with strengths in participatory methods and co-design for applied research. She has built research partnerships with Australian Pacific Climate Partnership, Australian Volunteers International, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Plan Australia, Plan Indonesia, Plan Asia-Pacific, WaterAid Timor-Leste, and World Vision Bangladesh. She has experience working in diverse contexts across Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Pacific, and specialises in Indonesia.

Ashley is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Susanne Melde is a Senior Analyst at the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Berlin, Germany. Her main areas of work are migration governance and knowledge management of understanding migration data.

Ms. Melde has 12 years of experience in working on migration research and policy at IOM. From 2014 to 2017 she has managed a major EU-funded research project on migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental and climate change in 6 pilot countries. Currently she coordinates the Global Migration Data Portal and analysis on migration governance in a number of countries.

She has a BA in International Relations from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany; an MA in Human Rights and a PhD in Migration Studies from Sussex University in the UK.

Laurea Triennale at the University of Bologna, Italy, in International Relations (Erasmus Exchange Programme at Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin and Overseas Exchange Programme at the University of California, Berkeley). MSc in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). Ph.D. candidate in Migration Studies at the University Of Sussex, School of Global Studies, Geography Department. Work experience in film festival organization and community project management (Human Rights Nights Film Festival and Mercatino Verde del Mondo, Bologna; African Bamba, Dakar, Thiaroye, Senegal; Film Africa, London).

I'm a Social Statistician with research interests in migration and refugee studies. I got a PhD in Applied statistics at the University of Palermo, where I'm currently a full professor. I'm also the PI of the research project AVRAI (Assessing the Vulnerability of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Italy), a joint project (started in October 2023) with researchers from the Italian universities of Milan Bicocca, Bologna and Calabria.

Luca Merotta is Project Manager at Fondazione ISMU. He monitors and conducts research on EU migration and integration policies. He is also the coordinator of ISMU's “Europe, Africa and migration” programme on migration and development. He has implemented several EU-funded projects on knowledge governance, irregular/legal migration and migrant entrepreneurship. Luca holds a B.A. in Linguistic Science and International Relations from the Catholic University of Milan, a M.A. in European Studies from Leiden University and a M.A. in Transnational Politics from the University of Paris 8 – Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Previously he worked for the European Commission, the European network of children’s right organisations Eurochild and the French Development Agency.