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Guido Bolaffi
Guido Bolaffi is Director-General of the Italian Department of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and has served in that post since 2001. He has also held the Director-General position as head of both the Immigration Bureau of the Ministry of Immigration and Italian Communities Overseas and, more recently, the Department for Social Affairs of the Italian Prime Minister's Office.

Mr. Bolaffi was a member of the high-level panel on the free movement of persons in the European Union, chaired by Simone Veil in 1996. In 1989, he was appointed Director-General, and in the same month, he was called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to serve as an Advisor on Social European Issues and Immigration. Mr. Bolaffi is a columnist of two Italian nation-wide daily newspapers and has also published many articles on migration and social issues.

Heaven Crawley
Heaven Crawley is Programme Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London, embarking on a comparative research project on low-skilled and irregular/undocumented migration in Europe and the US. In-depth knowledge and understanding of national and international asylum and immigration issues gained through doctoral research, freelance consultancy and as head of the UK Home Office's research programme in asylum and immigration. Responsible for developing and delivering a programme of research on asylum and immigration to evaluate changes in policy and practice resulting from the White Paper and 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act and to inform future policy development within the Home Office. Publications include Women as Asylum Seekers: A Legal Handbook (1997), Gender Guidelines for the Determination of Asylum Claims in the UK (1998) and Refugees and Gender: Law and Process (2001).

Constantinos Fotakis
Constantinos Fotakis is head of the Unit "Social and demographic analysis" in the European Commission. He has been working at the European Commission since 1981. He has studied Economics in the Economic University of Athens and in Toronto at York University (MA).

Elspeth Guild
Elspeth Guild is a human rights lawyer, specializing in immigration law. She is based at the legal firm of Kingsley Napley and is a professor of European migration law at the University of Nijmegen. Ms. Guild represents the UK to the European Commission's Network on Free Movement of Persons. She is also a member of the academic group on immigration for Tampere, Finland, an initiative to provide a new strategy for European immigration and asylum law. Ms. Guild's research interests include EC law relating to the free movement of persons, including the transfer of staff from companies between member states, the right of establishment, and the provision of services. She is a prolific author and frequent lecturer on immigration matters throughout Europe.

C. (Babis) Kasimis
Dr. C. Kasimis is a professor of rural sociology at the University of Patras, Department of Economics. He served as the Director of the Institute of Urban and Rural Sociology at the National Center for Social Research (EKKE) from 1995-2000. He has published and edited several volumes on rural development.

Dr. Kasimis's research interests and publications have focused on family farming, rural restructuring, and development in Greece and the Balkans. Recently, his work was expanded to include issues related to migration. He has just completed a two-year project on "the socio-economic implications of the settlement and employment of migrants in rural Greece."

Louka Katseli
Louka Katseli is Professor of Economics at the University of Athens and Vice-Chair and Rapporteur of the Committee for Development Policy of the UN and has served in that post since 1996. From 1995-1997, she served as a member of the European Commission's seven-member "ComitŽ des Sages," which submitted an influential report on the reform of the European Social Charter. At the same time, Ms. Katseli also held the position of Special Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece and subsequently as Special Adviser to the Greek Minister of Education. Ms. Katseli has published over 40 articles in professional journals and edited volumes. She has made research contributions in the areas of exchange rate policy, international capital movements, migration policy, and the economics of European integration. Over the last five years, she has worked extensively and published in the area of migration and migration policy from a European perspective with special emphasis on illegal migration and its implications for labor market integration policies.

Gregory A. Maniatis
Gregory A. Maniatis is a publisher, writer, and producer whose reportage and commentary have been featured in New York magazine, The Washington Monthly, the International Herald Tribune, PBS Television, and many other publications. In 1991, Mr. Maniatis founded Odyssey magazine, an English-language bimonthly that is considered the leading international magazine about Greece and Greeks around the world, with over 60,000 readers in 35 countries. Mr. Maniatis previously served as Managing Director of Odyssey Communications, whose mission was to assist clients in Greece with international communications and marketing efforts. He has also served as President of the Board of the Vryonis Center for Hellenic Studies, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Doris Meissner
Doris Meissner, former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is a Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. She contributes to MPI's project on national security and immigration and conducts policy research on international migration and development, and immigration policymaking in an era of globalization. Ms. Meissner served as INS commissioner at the U.S. Department of Justice from October 1993 to November 2000. Her impressive accomplishments included reforming the nation's asylum system; creating new strategies for managing U.S. borders in the context of open trade; improving services for immigrants; managing migration and humanitarian crises firmly and compassionately; and strengthening cooperation and joint initiatives with Mexico, Canada, and other countries. In 1989, Ms. Meissner founded the Carnegie Endowment's International Migration Policy Program, which evolved into the Migration Policy Institute in 2001. She left the Carnegie Endowment in 1993 when President Bill Clinton tapped her to serve as INS commissioner. After leaving government in 2000, she returned to the Carnegie Endowment as a senior associate in the Global Policy Program.

GŽrard Moreau
GŽrard Moreau has been Senior Advisor to the Cour des Comptes (Court of Accounts), which has jurisdiction over the financial affairs of the French public sector, since 1997. Mr. Moreau was Director of Population and Migration in the French Ministry of Social Affairs from 1985-1997. Additional appointments during that time included Secretary General for the Council on Population and the Family, President of the Steering Committee of the European Council on Population, and President of the Migration Working Group of the OECD.

Rainer MŸnz
Rainer MŸnz holds the Chair of Demography at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has written extensively about immigration in Germany and Europe, including the recent monograph Migrationsreport 2002. Fakten-Analysen-Perspektiven. Frankfurt/New York 2002 (Campus; gem. m. Klaus J. Bade). Dr. MŸnz has also served as visiting professor at several institutions, including the University of Vienna; prior to coming to Humboldt University, he served as director of the Institute of Demography in Vienna.

Kathleen Newland
Kathleen Newland is co-director and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute. Her work focuses on refugee protection, international humanitarian response, and migration management. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she co-directed the International Migration Policy Program (1994-2001). She chairs the Board of Directors of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children and sits on the Board of the International Rescue Committee. Prior to joining the Migration Program at the Carnegie Endowment in 1994, Ms. Newland worked as an independent consultant for such clients as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Bank, and the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. She wrote the first State of the World's Refugees 1993 report for UNHCR, which has become the organization's flagship biennial publication. Ms. Newland is a graduate of Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She did additional graduate work at the London School of Economics.

Jan Niessen
Jan Niessen is the founder and director of the Brussels-based Migration Policy Group, an independent policy institute on migration and diversity. He designs policy oriented research on anti-discrimination legislation in the individual EU Member States and for many years, he chaired the Starting Line. Among his current activities are the writing of a report on new challenges for the integration of immigrants and minorities, the promotion of proposals for European immigration policies, and the establishment of a network for ethnic entrepreneurs. Dr. Niessen has published widely about migration, anti-discrimination, and diversity and is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Migration and Law and of the Board of Directors of the Journal of International Migration and Integration. He is also co-editor of a book series on migration and law.

Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Demetrios G. Papademetriou is co-director and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute. His work concentrates on immigrant settlement and integration, migration management throughout the advanced industrial world, and the North American borders and migration agenda, Previously, he was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he co-directed the International Migration Policy Program. Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment, Dr. Papademetriou was the Director for Immigration Policy and Research at the U.S. Department of Labor and the Chair of the Secretary of Labor's Immigration Policy Task Force. From 1991-1996, he concurrently served as the Chair of the Migration Committee of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Dr. Papademetriou's publications on the topic of immigration cover a wide range of domestic and international issues. He has written over 150 articles, book chapters, and magazine pieces on the subject, as well as more than two dozen books, monographs, and major reports.

Rinus Penninx
Rinus Penninx has been professor of Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam since 1993 and also serves as director of the university's Institute for Migration & Ethnic Studies (IMES). He has written for many years on migration, minorities policy, and ethnic studies. From 1978 to 1988 he worked as a senior researcher in the Research and Development Department of a Directorate General of the Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Culture, particularly for research relating to migration and ethnic minorities in the Netherlands. In 1990 he became professor "Ethnic Studies and Minority Questions" at the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam.

Sandra Pratt
Sandra Pratt is Principal Administrator for the European Commission's Directorate General for Justice and Home Affairs Immigration and Asylum Unit. As such, Ms. Pratt is responsible for the development of community immigration policy and the coordination of the work of the immigration team. Ms. Pratt has also managed the Commission's program for the integration of refugees. Since Ms. Pratt joined the European Commission in 1988, she has held posts in DG Employment and Social Affairs and in DG Education and Culture.

Kristiina Rinkineva
Kristiina Rinkineva works as advisor to President Ahtisaari. She joined the Crisis Management Initiative in October 2000. Ms. Rinkineva's areas of specialization are Security policy (EU, NATO, Balkans, Euro-Atlantic relations); Peacekeeping and Crisis management; International law and Information Technology and Crisis Management-project. Prior to that, she worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as a Democratization Officer for the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ms. Rinkineva's other previous placements have been at the Political Department of the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, External Relations Directorate in the European Commission, and in European organizations representing small and medium-sized enterprises. She is Secretary of the Atlantic Council of Finland.

Ms. Rinkineva holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Tampere University, 1997 and a European Master's degree in Human Rights and Democratization from the University of Padova, Italy, 1998.

Sarah Spencer
Sarah Spencer is Director of the Citizenship and Governance Program at the Institute for Public Policy Research. She manages a team conducting policy research on migration, race and age equality, criminal justice, human rights, and public sector governance issues. Ms. Spencer is a Visiting Professor at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, a Commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality (the government agency responsible for promoting integration of minorities), and part-time advisor to the British government on future migration policy options. Ms. Spencer is a member of various government advisory committees and was a Commissioner on the independent Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, chaired by Lord Parekh.

Ms. Spencer was part of the team led by Dr. Steven Vertovec and Professor Stephen Castles that recently won an ESRC contract to establish a ten year research center at the University of Oxford, the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), commencing in October 2003. Her writings on the topic of migration in Europe have covered a variety of economic and social issues.

Joanne van Selm
Joanne van Selm is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, focusing on refugee protection, international humanitarian response, and migration management. She is also a Lecturer in political science at the University of Amsterdam and continues to be affiliated with the University's Institute of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Dr. van Selm has published widely on temporary protection, European asylum policy, and other refugee- and migration-related topics. She is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Refugee Studies, and a member of the Executive Board of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, for which she developed and chaired the Program of the 7th bi-annual conference in January 2001. During 2000-2001, she co-directed a project on Security and Refugees for the United Nations University, and served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Studies Association's section on Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration.

Patrick E. Weil
Patrick E. Weil is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research, University of Paris1-Sorbonne. He is also a member of the Governmental Advisory Council on Integration and President of the interministerial group on Immigration Statistics. Dr. Weil authored a 1997 report for the French Prime Minister on French nationality and immigration law, which became the basis for the introduction of important reforms in immigration policy by the Socialist government. His 1992 book France and its Foreigners: The Adventure of an Immigration Policy since 1938 was awarded the French Parliament Prize. Dr. Weil was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 1995-1996, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard in 1996-1997.

Monette Zard
Monette Zard is a Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, focusing on refugee protection and international humanitarian response. From 1997-1999, she was the Senior Coordinator of the International Refugee Program of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, during which time her work focused on refugee protection issues in East and West Africa. She was the Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow in International Human Rights and Refugee Law at the Refugee Studies Center, Oxford University during 2000-2001.

Ms. Zard has worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch/Arms Project in Southern Lebanon and has also consulted for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Bureau covering Central and South West Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is currently participating in a collaborative project with the Brookings Institution that focuses on the problem of internal displacement.