Crossroads of Change: Migration Dynamics in the EU
March 28-29 | EPPC 2025 | Brussels, Belgium
Speakers
Antonio Martins da Cruz | Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Government of Portugal
Ambassador da Cruz has held a long and distinguished career in both diplomatic service and as a policy maker in Portugal. His extensive experience includes service as foreign affairs advisor to the Prime Minister of Portugal and head of the Diplomatic…
Lena Düpont | Member of the European Parliament (MEP)
EPP/CDU
Lena Düpont from Gifhorn, Germany, is Member of the European Parliament since 2019, serving her second term. She sits in the Committees on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the newly…
Tom Snels | Head of Unit for Schengen Governance
Directorate-General Migration & Home Affairs
Tom Snels holds master degrees from the K.U. Leuven, the College of Europe, Columbia Law School and INSEAD. Before joining the European Commission, he practiced competition law as attorney admitted to the bars of New York and…
Kamilla Solieva | Head of Policy
Volt Delegation
Kamilla Solieva is a Coordinator for the Volt Europa delegation, overseeing horizontal policy topics, including boosting Europe's competitiveness and talent attraction. Since 2019, Kamilla has been a policy advisor to MEP Damian Boeselager, working…
Misachi Ogawa | Policy Advisor
MEP Birgit Sippel
Misachi Ogawa has been a policy advisor (APA) for MEP Birgit Sippel since 2019, responsible for the policy areas of migration, asylum and border management. He has closely followed the negotiations on the EU asylum reform…
Mirka Schäfer | Head of Advocacy & Mobilisation
SOS Humanity
Mirka Schäfer is head of the Advocacy & Mobilisation department and political spokesperson for the non-governmental Search and Rescue organisation SOS Humanity. She holds a master’s degree in Social…
Christian Jakob | Editor
TAZ
Christian Jakob is an editor at the Berlin based daily newspaper TAZ and specializes in migration issues. In 2022 and 2019, he co-edited the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung's Atlas of Migration. Christian has been the author of the Civil Society Atlas for Brot für die Welt (Bread for the…
Amrita Datta | Lecturer
Bielefeld University
Amrita Datta is the author of Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). A Sociologist, Amrita's research focuses primarily on skilled migration, transnational mobility, (im)mobility and "new" migration. Currently, she is…
Dr. Başak Yavçan | Head of Research
Migration Policy Group
Dr. Başak Yavçan is Migration Policy Group’s Head of Research. She is responsible for all of MPG’s research activities and research agenda development. She conducts comparative analyses of migration and integration statistics and policies at the…
Eden Alemayehu | Programme Specialist - Labour Mobility
International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Migration Partnership Facility
Eden Alemayehu is a programme specialist on labour mobility at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) within the Migration Partnership Facility (MPF). She leads technical…
Dr. Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer | Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Fairwork
Dr. Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Fairwork Project’s Germany team at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)…
Zeynep Karlıdağ | Guest Researcher
Fairwork
Zeynep Karlıdağ is a researcher at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, and affiliated as a guest researcher with the Fairwork Project’s Germany team at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)…
Debarun Dutta | Research Assistant
Fairwork
Debarun Dutta is a policy communicator with over 15 years of work experience with non-profits in India. He has a master’s degree in Human rights, a PGDM in Development communication and is currently pursuing a Masters in Public policy from the Hertie School, Berlin…
Dr. Asya Magazinnik | Professor of Social Data Science
Hertie School
Asya Magazinnik is the Professor of Social Data Science at the Hertie School, where she currently serves as the Director of the Data Science Lab. Her research interests include electoral geography, federalism, local politics, and law enforcement. She also works…
Siddhi Pal | Senior Policy Researcher (AI & Labor Markets)
interface
Siddhi Pal (she/her) is a Senior Policy Researcher at interface, where she leads research on AI & Labour Markets in Europe with a focus on inclusion and global talent flows. With degrees in Public Policy and Social Psychology…
Catherine Schneider | Policy Researcher (AI & Labor Markets)
interface
Catherine Schneider (she/her) is a Policy Researcher on the interface AI, focusing on AI and labour markets. Prior to her role at interface, Catherine worked at Mozilla on the technical grant-team and the UN Refugee Agency…
Dr. Lucy Hall | Lecturer
University of Amsterdam
Lucy Hall (she/her) is a researcher and lecturer at PPLE College, University of Amsterdam. Her work considers the intersections of gender, violence and protection in refugee and humanitarian protection. Her publications include Logics…
Robert Lange | Former Researcher
University of Amsterdam
Robert Lange has researched EU frameworks for disaster preparedness, notably in collaboration with Dr. Lucy Hall on a critical analysis of the 2021 floods across North-Western Europe. Their interdisciplinary research, which combined narrative interviews with EU legal…
Nicoletta Ionta | Politics Reporter
Euractiv
Nicoletta Ionta is a Politics Reporter at Euractiv, covering migration and EU institutions. She previously produced "Today in the EU", the first daily podcast in the Brussels bubble, and worked on Justice and Home Affairs at Italy’s EU Representation…
Morana Miljanovic | Advocacy
Louise Michel
Morana Miljanovic is part of the Advocacy team of Louise Michel, a queer feminist project active in the Central Mediterranean with a ship that sails in solidarity with people on the move and in resistance to the racist border regime of the EU…
Stijn Kluck | Chair of the Migration and Wage Labour Working Group
Agro-Ecology Network
Stijn Kluck is the Chair of the Migration and Wage Labour working group of the Agro-Ecology Network, an active campaigner at Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Diversity (ASEED), and an MSc…