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Ph.D. expert specialized in migration management with focus on asylum, integration and dedicated European funds. During the period 2007-2017, as immigration police officer I evaluated over 100 project proposals related to the asylum phenomenon, areas of intervention: legal counselling for asylum seekers, material and education aid for asylum seekers and beneficiaries of a form of protection, country of origin reports, relocation, integration, irregular migration, etc. In order to develop my knowledge in the migration field, I concluded in 2021 my doctoral studies with the thesis "The integrated System of the Migration Management". I know very well the migration public system in Romania as I worked for 14 years in the General Inspectorate for Immigration and now, I have extended my overview working as an independent consultant and NGO's representative.

Dr Zana Vathi has been conducting research in the field of migration since 2005. She is Reader/Associate Professor in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University in the UK. She was trained at the University of Sussex where she completed her PhD in Migration Studies in 2011. Dr Vathi is an expert in qualitative migration studies with fieldwork experience in in over 6 countries and with various migrant groups.

Ph.D candidate in Sociology, Umeå University.

Doctora en Economía. MBA y Magister en Gerencia de Proyectos de Ingeniería. Economista
Adicionalmente, capacitada en cursos del BCR; la Universita de Trento -Italia. Ha desarrollado proyectos e investigaciones económicas en diversas empresas del medio. Actualmente Directora de la Carrera Profesional de Economía.
Experiencia profesional en el desarrollo de proyectos internacionales y nacionales de alto impacto en el desarrollo del país. Colaboradora Externa de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo y la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones.
Especialidades: mercado laboral, movilidad laboral, y actualmente trabajando el tema de Migraciones Internacionales y Remesas. Tercera Misión.

Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). She studied Slavic Languages and Cultures, European Studies and History in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. Venken earned her PhD in 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her habilitation in 2018 at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been a Principal Investigator of eight research projects funded in four European countries. Venken joined the University of Luxembourg in November 2019 after a Visiting Scholarship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg / Institute of Advanced Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and an Attract Brains for Brussels Fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). Her main research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science.

Professor of migration history