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European Parliament2014-2019<Commission>{LIBE}Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs</Commission>LIBE_OJ (2018)0124_1<TitreType>SPEAKERS</TitreType>INTERPARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE MEETINGThe European Agenda on MigrationWhat about Legal Avenues and Integration? Wednesday 24 January 2018, 9.00 - 12.30 and 14.00 - 17.40BrusselsRoom: JAN 4Q2FIRST SESSION The European Agenda for Migration- Legal avenues and integration two years on -Claude MORAES has been a Member of the European Parliament for Socialists and Democrats group since 1999. He is Chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee (LIBE) since 2014 and Rapporteur on the revision of the Blue Card Directive. He was also Rapporteur for the Seasonal Workers Directive. He was previously Deputy Leader of the European parliamentary Labour party (EPLP), Director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), the national migration and refugee charity, and Chief Executive of the Immigrants’ Aid Trust. He was appointed a Commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) for the period 1997-2002 while at JCWI. He has written regularly on migration and human rights issues.Felipe GONZ?LEZ MORALES is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. He is also Professor of International Law at the Diego Portales University, in Santiago, Chile and Director of a Master in International Human Rights Law. He was a Commissioner and the Rapporteur on Migrants between 2008 and 2015 at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, where he was President between 2010 and 2011. Professor González teaches International Human Rights Law since 2003 at several postgraduate programs at the University Carlos III in Madrid, as well as in several other universities in Spain. Since 2001, he teaches at the American University Human Rights Academy in Washington, D.C. He is the founder and was the first Director of the Center for Human Rights at the Diego Portales University. He is also the founder and was the first Director of a Latin American Network of Human Rights Legal Clinics. Professor González holds a Doctorate and a Master in Advanced Human Rights from University Carlos III and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from American University. Fatma ?AHIN is the Mayor of Gaziantep, Turkey, has been awarded the 2017 Italy’s Minerva Prize in the section “Women in the World” for her and her municipality’s role in helping Syrian refugees.. She holds BS degree in chemical engineering from Istanbul Technical University (1987) and worked as a plant engineer from 1988 to 2001. She was elected Member of the Turkish Parliament twice (2002, 2007) and was the first woman Member of the Parliament for Gaziantep and South-eastern Anatolia region. During her tenure as parliamentarian, she was a member of the Turkish-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission and Chair of the Morals and Decency Murders Commission and Research Commission of Violence against Children. She also assumed different duties at the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) such as vice-chairman of the Party and the member of Central Executive Committee. She acted as Women Branches Chairwoman of AK Party between 2007 and 2011. After the 2011 general elections, she was appointed Minister of Family and Social Policies as the only woman Minister at the Cabinet.Tsvetan TSVETANOV is a Member of the Bulgarian Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Internal affairs and public order and former President of the GERD party. He was previously Deputy Prime Minister and Bulgarian Interior Minister for the period 2009-2013. He graduated from the National Sports Academy of Sofia in 1992 and completed his post-graduate studies in law at the University for National and World Economy in Sofia in 2000. He also acquired various additional qualifications in Spain and in the USA, in fighting illegal trafficking and terrorism. Between 1987 and 2005, he held various positions at Bulgarian Ministry of Interior including "specialist", inspector, senior inspector and Operational Assistant of the Chief Secretary of the Interior Ministry, General Boyko Borisov and was appointed Deputy Mayor of Sofia in charge of public safety and security in 2005.SECOND SESSION - Legal avenues for international protection -Sophia IN’T VELD has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004 and is Rapporteur on the revision of the Reception Conditions Directive. Currently, she is the Vice-President of the Alliance of the Liberals and Democrats for Europe and Vice-Chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She is also a member of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. She studied history at Leiden University from 1982 to 1991. Since 1994 she has been working in Brussels, first as the assistant of Dutch MEP Johanna Boogerd- Quaak and from 1996 to 2004 as the Secretary of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) in the Committee of the Regions. In 2004, 2009 and 2014, Ms in’t Veld was D66’s front runner for the European elections. Peter O’ Sullivan is the Resettlement Officer to UNHCR’s Bureau for Europe, advocating for more and better resettlement to Europe, the development of complementary pathways of admission, such as community-based private sponsorship programmes, student scholarship and labour migration schemes, amongst others, and for improved integration measures across Europe. In addition, he works in cooperation with IOM and ICMC in the coordination of the European Resettlement Network. Academically, he obtained a B.A. in Geography, an M.A. in Peace and Development Studies, and an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law. He has worked in various contexts on development, human rights and conflict-related issues, including in India as a Community Development Advisor, as Human Rights Specialist with UNDP Lesotho, as Head of Office and Human Rights Officer in Srebrenica, as well as Policy and Advocacy Coordinator in Sarajevo with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the Political and Security Advisor to CARE International in the Gaza Strip, and as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Speaker of the Senate of Canada.Violeta MORENO-LAX is an Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in Law, founding Director of the Immigration Law programme and co-founder of the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA) at Queen Mary University of London. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Fellow of the Centre of European Law of King’s College London, EU Asylum Law Coordinator at the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London, Co-Chair of The Refugee Law Observatory, Co-convener of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Migration Law Section, as well as member of the Steering Committee of the Migration Law Network and of the OMNIA /?Odysseus Network. She has published widely in the areas of international and European refugee and migration law, including her recent monograph: Accessing Asylum Europe: Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights Under EU Law (Oxford University Press, 2017). And she regularly acts as expert consultant for the EU institutions and other organisations active in the field.Marietta KARAMANLI?has been a Member of the French?National Assembly?for the Sarthe?constituency?since 2007 and city councillor?of Le Mans since 1989.?She was born in Athens and is a member of the French Socialist Party.?She holds a PhD in Political Sciences and is also a Professor at the Université du Maine.?Currently,?she?is a member of?the?Committee of European affairs?and of?the Law Committee in the French?National Assembly as well as a member of?the French Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of?Europe and?of?the Special Committee for transparency?and trust?in politics.Nikolaos PARASKEVOPOULOS?has been Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Syriza since September 2015. He is also an?Emeritus?Professor of criminal law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki's Law School. He was previously Minister of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights since January 2015 and contributed to the adoption of the Law authorizing same-sex marriage in Greece and the?Greek Law concerning conditional release of detainees.?Elected President (three times) of the NGO KETHEA, Organisation for the Therapy of Addicted?persons, having consultative status with the United Nations - Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with regard to drug-related issues. At Present, he is Emeritus President of this Organization.??Author of many books and articles in the fields of Criminal Law and the History of Law.Simon BUSUTTIL?has been?a?Member of the Maltese Parliament?since 2013?and was also Leader of the?Maltese Nationalist party?until 2017.?. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament and member of the EPP’s bureau between 2004 and 2013. He sat on various committees including the Committee on Budgetary Control?and the Committee on?Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee and was Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the?Maghreb countries. He served as an adviser on EU affairs to a number of government Ministries and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta before being appointed member of the Core Negotiating Group (negotiating Malta's membership in the EU) and the Malta-EU Steering and Action Committee (MEUSAC) in 1999. Malin BJ?RK has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014 and a member of the Bureau of the Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left since 2017. She is the Rapporteur on the proposal for a Union Resettlement Framework and serves in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, Delegation for relations with India and is a substitute member in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She previously worked for the European Women's Lobby in Brussels for several years before she became an EU official for the European United Left–Nordic Green Left in 2009. She is particularly active on feminist issues, anti-racism, LGBT legal rights, protection of welfare and worker’s legal rights and opposition to austerity policies.THIRD SESSION- Labour migration and family reunification -Roberta METSOLA has been a Member of the European Parliament for the EPP group since 2013. She is also Co-Rapporteur for the EP resolution on “The situation in the Mediterranean and the need for a holistic EU approach to migration” and Chair of the EP Asylum Contact Group. Currently, she is Vice-Chair of the Committee on Petitions and member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Special Committee on Terrorism and the Delegation for relations with the United States. She studied Law at the University of Malta between 1999 and 2003 and graduated from the College of Europe in 2004. Since 2004 she has been working in Brussels, first as Legal and Judicial Cooperation Attaché and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs Unit of the Maltese Permanent Representation to the EU (2004-2012) and as legal advisor to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton (2012-2013).Claire COURTEILLE has been Director of the office of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Brussels since 2014. Before joining the ILO she was a director at the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) dealing with issues related to equality, social protection, informal economy, migration and gender. She started her carrier in the field of development cooperation and has worked for the UNHCR, the OSCE and several non-governmental organisations. She graduated from the Sorbonne University in Paris in international economics (1991) and the London School of Economics in development studies (1995). Thomas HUDDLESTON is Programme Director on Migration and Integration of the Migration policy Group since 2006. He has coordinated MPG’s comparative research on European and national policies in areas such as integration, citizenship, political participation, family reunification, and work migration. He is Central Research Coordinator of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX). He graduated from Georgetown University in European Studies (2005) and completed a PhD in Philosophy at Maastricht University (2012). Jacek KURZEPA has been a Member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm) for the Law and Justice Party since 2015. He was previously an activist of the Election Action Solidarno?? (Akcja Wyborcza Solidarno??) and the regional coordinator of the President Lech Kaczynski Social Movement. Sociologist and academic, he is an Assoicate professor at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities and at The University of Zielona Góra. He is also an instructor of the Scouting Association of the Republic of Poland in the rank of Scoutmaster, co-founder of 1 DSH "Trop" and the commander of Wielkopolska Scouts Flag of the ZHR. Laura FERRARA has been a Member of the European Parliament for the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group since 2014 and is Rapporteur on the proposal for an Asylum Procedure Regulation and Shadow Rapporteur on the revision of the Blue Card Directive. Currently, she is Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs and member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee, the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. She graduated from the University of Bologna in Law (2008) and holds a PhD in Theory and History of Human Rights at University of Florence (2014). FOURTH SESSION- Integration - opportunities and challenges -Jean Lambert has been London’s Green Party MEP since 1999. She sits on both the Employment and Civil Liberties Committees and has worked on many aspects of migration and equalities policy over the years. Currently, she is Rapporteur for the Employment Committee’s input to Parliament’s position on the so-called Blue Card Directive, relating to highly-qualified migration. She is her Group’s ‘shadow’ rapporteur on the revisions of the Dublin Regulation and the Qualification Directive concerning asylum policy and the updating of the Co-ordination of Social Security Regulation – a cornerstone of free movement for EU nationals. Jean is also a Co-president of Parliament’s Diversity and Anti-Racism intergroup and chairs the Delegation for relations with countries of South Asia, which gives her an additional perspective on migration policy.Thomas LIEBIG is Senior Migration Specialist in the International Migration Division of the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs in Paris. Since joining the division in 2004, he has been working on the integration of immigrants and their children, the analysis of migration trends, the management of labour migration and the economic impact of migration. He is currently in charge of the OECD work on the integration of immigrants, including the joint EU-OECD indicators of immigrant integration. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Economics from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), an MSc in International Affairs and a CEMS Master in International Business Management. Prior to joining the International Migration Division, he worked as a consultant for the OECD’s Economics Department in 2000 and as a Research Associate in the Institute for Labour Economics and Labour Law at the University of St. Gallen from 2001-2004. Numerous publications and lectures on migration and integration issues.Miltos PAVLOU is Senior Programme Manager - Social Research of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. His areas of expertise include social inclusion and integration of migrants and minorities, hate crime and extremism, racism and discrimination, asylum and migration policy, Roma and Travelers, rights of LGBT persons, equality and social cohesion policies, social surveys and qualitative research. Before joining the FRA he was Senior Investigator at the Greek Ombudsman Office and a socio-legal researcher and analyst, leading and implemented multi-national research and advocacy initiatives combating racism, xenophobia and intolerance, as well as heading i-RED and the RED Early Warning System to combat racism and xenophobia and monitor extremism. He has also worked for institution building projects in Europe and Central Asia in cooperation with EU bodies and the Council of Europe. He is co-editor and author of a number of key collective volumes and research publications on immigration, racism and discrimination in Greece and Europe.Osman KIMIL is at the head of Unipack, a German company producing packaging films and the current President of BUV, the German Member of the New European Business Confederation (UNITEE). Born in North-east of Turkey, he lived in Istanbul for 5 years before moving to Germany in 1987 where his father was already working as a gastarbeiter since 1966. He trained as a harbour technician and worked for twelve years in the port of Hamburg before founding his own company in 1989 with the objective of supplying the Turkish market with packaging films. He has recently taken the initiative to start a program of hiring refugees in his company.Susana AMADOR has been a Member of the Portuguese Parliament for the Portugese Socialist Party since 2005. She was previously President of the Municipal Assembly of Odivelas (2001-2005) and also worked as a legal adviser at the UNHCR (1991-1993) and at the Portuguese Refugee Council (1993-1995). From 1998 to 2002, she was a visiting lecturer for International Relations at the University of Coimbra. She graduated from the Universidade Nova of Lisbon in Law (1990), specialized in Asylum Law at Oxford University and completed a master in European Studies at the Universidade CatólicaDimitrios KALOGEROPOULOS has been a member of the Committee of Regions since 2010 representing the Municipality of Palaio Faliro and is the rapporteur for the mid-term review of the implementation of the European Agenda on Migration. He has been Vice President of the CoR and Head of the Greek Delegation, Mayor of the City of Aigaleo for 8 years, Secretary for the Coordination of the Waste Management in the Ministry of Interior, Prefect of Preveza, Vice-President of the ‘Saint Barbara’ Prefecture Hospital of West Athens, professor of the Technical Educational Institution of Piraeus, and consultant of the Sub-ministry of Sports and Athletics. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Development of West Athens and the Association for the Organisation, the Management and the Development of Elaionas. He has been an active member of the Prefecture and Local Government for 14 consecutive year fighting for the improvement of the city of Aigaleo and West Athens as a whole. He studied architecture at the University of Florence, holds a PhD in Urban Planning and is one of the founding members of the Engineers Society of West Athens. Helga STEVENS has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014. Currently, she is the Vice-President of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group and member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and of the Special Committee on Terrorism. She was Shadow Rapporteur for the EP resolution on “Refugees: social inclusion and integration into the labour market”. She graduated in Law from the Catholic University of Leuven (1193) and from University of California in Berkeley (1994). Since 1994, she worked in Brussels first in a law firm and then for the European Union of the Deaf on the Sign Languages Project. She entered politics in 2004 as a Member of the Flemish Parliament and held office for 2 consecutive mandates (2004-2014), as well as being a municipal councillor for Ghent (2006-2014). CLOSING PANELDimitris AVRAMOPOULOS is the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship since November 2014. Before becoming European Commissioner, he was Minister of National Defence of Greece (two terms), Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Tourism Development, Minister of Health and Social Solidarity and Mayor of Athens (two terms). He was elected Member of the Parliament several times with the “New Democracy” party (1993, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2012). He served in the Diplomatic Service of Greece from 1980 until 1993. He was Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Diplomatic Cabinet of the Greek Prime Minister and Consul of Greece in Liège (Belgium) and in Geneva (Switzerland). He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the University of Athens and his postgraduate studies on International Organisation at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is Honorary Professor of the State Academy of Technological Sciences of Moscow, Peking University (Beijing) and European College of Parma (Italy). He is Honorary Doctor of ADELPHI University (New York), DREXEL University (Philadelphia), KINGSTON University and DEREE College (Athens).Eugenio AMBROSI is the Regional Director of IOM’s Regional Office for the EU, Norway and Switzerland.? Prior to this, he was the Senior Regional Adviser for Europe and Central Asia in the Office of the Director General at IOM’s Headquarters in Geneva. He came to IOM in 1991 where he has since held senior positions including Director for the Regional Office in Buenos Aires and Director of the Dakar Regional Office.? He has extensive experience and knowledge of 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.? He has a Master in Law and holds a Post Graduate degree in International Law and Multilateral Diplomacy.?? ................
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