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John Ede has been President/CEO since 2013 at Ohaha Family Foundation, a Nigeria based NGO working to alleviate human suffering, deliver social protection and lifesaving interventions to vulnerable groups. He has been engaged in social protection and humanitarian work for around 2 decades, providing leadership, policy advocacy, partnership and programme management in conflicts and forced displacement settings for Protection of Civilians, promoting gender equality, and increasing access to healthcare in the region through different NGOs and networks. He is an invitee to the Grand-Bargain-Localization-Workstream, Inter-Agency-Standing-Committee-Result-Group-3, co-facilitator Country-Level-Dialogue-on-localization, co-chair Advocacy Working Group Charter-for-Change, panellist UNDSS Security Symposium, 4-time speaker selection committee member UN-NGLS. John holds a degree in Geography from University-of-Jos-Nigeria, advanced diploma from University-of-Geneva, trained GenderPro George-Washington-University, Certificate in Civilian services Peace-Operations-Training-Institute-(POTI), INSSA Certified Security-Risk-Management-Country-level, Austrian-Study-Centre-for-Peace-and-Conflict-Resolution-(ASPR) IPT Master Class Gender, Intersectionality and Peacebuilding

Mr. Ferry is a Lecturer of nursing in the department of community health nursing, faculty of nursing at Airlangga University in Surabaya, Indonesia. He holds PhD in nursing which focusing on Indonesian nurses migration. In addition, he also had been involved in various projects within the area of Human Resources for Health at the Ministry of Health of Indonesia. His research interests include: Health Policy, Community Health, Maternal and Child Health, and Nurse Migration.

Dr. Itzel Eguiluz holds PhD in International Migration from UCM / FOG-Madrid and is a MSc in
Reproductive Health from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP). Her research
is manly about migration and global health. In 2018 she participated as consultant for different
projects as a seminar for UNHCR about Research methodologies for refugees and forced
migration, the Symbolic Elections for Foreigners in Mexico at the Instituto Mora, among others.
Dr. Eguiluz is a professor at the TEC CCM and the Instituto Mora, and is an invited professor for
the LGBTQ Communities, Public Health and Migration in Mexico program at the Washington
University. She is a mentor and Group Leader for the NYAS 1000 Girls 1000 Futures program.
She has presented her work in several Conferences as Emerging Adulthood 2013, 2015, 2017 &
2019, LASA 2019, 10th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health, among others. Since October 2020, Dr. Itzel Eguiluz is a postdoctoral fellow at the IIEc, UNAM.

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Before, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in Comparative Political Economy at the University of Konstanz. I obtained my PhD in Social Policy from the University of Kent and my BA/MA in Sociology from the University of Hamburg. I was a visiting researcher at the Universities of Amsterdam, Aalborg, and Leuven.

My interdisciplinary research and teaching is driven by a fascination for how globalization and European social integration are shaping societies as well as how people react to these changes through their social and political attitudes and behavior. I investigate some of the main challenges in politics, such as social rights, the development of new social policies, migration, Euroscepticism, and the increasing inequality in the wake of recent crises such as the financial crisis, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine.

I have received various international research grants and prizes for my academic work, and I am currently part of several (cross-national) research projects on these topics, including the Horizon 2020 project “The Future of European Social Citizenship”.

To find out more about my work, please visit my personal website and do not hesitate to contact me.

Ikenna Ejiba is an avid researcher with interest on migration, translocality, climate change, and food security. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Migration and Translocality in West Africa (MiTra/WA) project in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research examines the influence of migration and translocal networks on agricultural sustainability of rural farming households influenced by climate change. Ikenna has also presented research papers in international conferences including the First "Feed the Future" Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project organized by USAID and IFPRI; and also the African Heritage Institute's Annual Governance Conference on the Political Economy of Migration in Africa. His works has been published in journal articles.

Anoji Ekanayake is a PhD candidate at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, with extensive experience in research on migrant workers in the Gulf region. Her work has appeared in international journals such as Migration and Development (Routledge) and Comparative Migration Studies (Springer). She is currently working as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Migration Research and Development (CMRD), Sri Lanka, on a project on bilateral labour agreements. Prior to that, she was attached to the Migration and Displacement Stream of the Gender, Justice and Security Hub of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she worked with a team of researchers on forced displacement in Sri Lanka, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraqi Kurdistan.

I am a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Koç University. I received my M.A. in Sociology from Marmara University in 2020 and my B.A. in Clinical Psychology from University of Tabriz in 2014. My primary research interests lie in the area of forced migration, social integration of immigrants, informal labor migration, and transit migration with a particular focus on irregular transit migration of Afghan refugees from Iran to Turkey. Beside my ongoing studies, I also worked as a research assistant in several research projects including migration-development nexus (MIGNEX), advancing alternative migration governance (ADMIGOV), and DEFining and Implementing Novel Evidence-based psychosocial interventions (RE-DEFINE).

Cansu Ekmekcioglu is a doctoral candidate at Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

Doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS). Research interests include asylum seekers in Europe, norms and values within international migration, frontline-bureaucrats, international migration management organisations and return migration.