SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

TREVOR PHILLIPS was educated in the Caribbean and England. While completing his Chemistry degree he became involved in the National Union of Students and was elected president of the NUS in 1978. After leaving university he started his career in TV, initially as a researcher in LWT rising to become the Head of Current Affairs, a well-known face for both LWT and the BBC. Throughout his adult life he has been involved in campaigning on equality issues. He successfully initiated the Windrush season, which raised the profile of Black History. Trevor has combined his career in the media with voluntary work. He has been Chair of the Runnymede Trust and is currently trustee of several leading charities working to serve ethnic minority communities. After a successful career in broadcasting, Trevor was elected to the Chair of the London Assembly in May 2000. He has held the position of Chair at The Commission for Racial Equality since March 2003.

MODERATOR

DEMETRIOS G. PAPADEMETRIOU is co-Director and co-Founder of MPI. His work concentrates on the North American borders and migration agenda, immigrant settlement and integration, and migration and management throughout the advanced industrial world. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he directed (1993-1998) and co-directed (1998-2001) 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). 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.