BERTEL HAARDER is Denmark's Minister for Refugees, Immigrants and Integration Affairs. Minister Haarder is a member of Denmark's Liberal Party and began his long public service career as a member of the Folketinget for the North Jutland and Copenhagen County constituency in 1975 and 1977 respectively. From 1982-1993, he served in Denmark's Ministry of Education as Minister of Education and Research.

Mr. Haarder joined the European Parliament in 1994 and served as its Vice-President from 1997-1999. During Denmark's Presidency of the European Union in 2002, he served as Minister for European Affairs.

Mr. Haarder is a prolific writer. He is the author of many chronicles and books of social critique including: "The Tyranny of the Institutions" (1974), "New Liberalism and its Roots" (1982), and his most recent "The Soft Danish Cynicism" (1997).

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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 from October 1993 to November 2000. In 1989, Ms. Meissner founded the Carnegie Endowment's International Migration Policy Program, which evolved into the Migration Policy Institute in 2001. After leaving government in 2000, she returned to the Carnegie Endowment as a Senior Associate in the Global Policy Program.