Advisory Board
Georgia Papagianni - European External Action Service, Brussels
Short bio coming soon!
Diego Acosta - University of Bristol
Diego Acosta is a European and Migration Law Professor at the University of Bristol. He also holds the position of Director of the Global Nebrija-Santander Chair on Migration and Human Rights at Nebrija University in Madrid. He has authored over sixty publications and is currently analysing the free movement of people regimes globally with the support of the Open Society Foundations. Governments, parliaments, international organizations, law firms, and NGOs in Europe, the United States, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa have all sought Professor Acosta's legal opinion.
Ayhan Kaya - Istanbul Bilgi University
Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey. He is currently a European Research Council Advanced Grant holder (ERC AdG, 2019-2024). Kaya received his MA and PhD degrees at the University of Warwick, England. Kaya was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy, and adjunct lecturer at New York University, Florence in 2016/17. He previously worked and taught at the European University Viadrina as the Aziz Nesin Chair in 2013 and at Malmö University, Sweden, as the Willy Brandt Chair in 2011. Kaya specializes in European identities, Euro-Turks in Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, the Circassian diaspora in Turkey, the construction and articulation of modern transnational identities, refugee studies in Turkey, conventional and nonconventional forms of political participation in Turkey, and the rise of populist movements in the EU.
Eugenio Ambrosi - IOM, Geneva
Eugenio Ambrosi is the IOM’s Regional Director for the European Economic Area, the EU and NATO. Prior to this, he was the Senior Regional Adviser for Europe and Central Asia, based at IOM’s Headquarters in Geneva. Mr. Ambrosi came to IOM in 1991 where he has since held senior positions including Regional Director for the Southern Cone, Buenos Aires, and Director of Western Africa, Dakar.
He has extensive experience and knowledge of both European issues and IOM policies, programmes and operations, in addition to several years of executive experience with IOM’s regional bureau for Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Ambrosi is a Master in Law and holds a Postgraduate degree in International Law and Multilateral Diplomacy.
