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Grant Amyot is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queens University. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the Italian Communist Party, for which he undertook research in the field and at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. At Queen’s, he teaches primarily on comparative politics, European politics, and the EU. He has also taught in political thought and the philosophy and methodology of social science, and has co-taught an Italian literature course. Professor Amyot has served as co-editor […]

Thibault Biscahie is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at York University (Toronto), where he specializes in political economy, international relations and comparative politics. He holds a Master’s degree from Sciences Po Lille and has also studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Université de Provence. He is currently teaching international politics at York University as a Teaching Assistant. His doctoral research examines the election of Emmanuel Macron through a Gramscian lens and aims to […]

Sara Norrevik is a PhD Candidate and Fulbright Grantee in Political Science at the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation “Foreign Economic Policies in the European Parliament”. The dissertation consists of three papers that consider policy preferences among Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) toward foreign economic policies. Sara presents a new determinant, Trust in government, to predict MEPs’ voting on comprehensive trade agreements. She tests the association empirically with an original dataset. Additionally, Sara explores the role of Foreign Direct Investment […]

Sabrina Paillé is a PhD student in sociology at York University, where she is also pursuing a Graduate Diploma Program in German and European Studies. She is a Visiting Student in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary in fall 2018. She holds a MA in sociology from Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal. Sabrina Paillé’s MA thesis focused on the way in which the relationship between Nazism and Modernity has been theorized in […]

Dr. Katarzyna Granat is a Junior Research Fellow and a Marie Curie Fellow at Durham University Law School. Prior to this position Katarzyna was 2014-2015 Emile Noël Fellow at the New York University Jean Monnet Centre. She completed her PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. She also holds an LLM (EUI) and a master degree in law from Warsaw University. In addition she has interned at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg (chambers of […]

Johannes Müller Gómez is a doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal. In his PhD project, he analyses the implementation of international agreements in multi-level systems. From 2014 to 2017, he was a research associate at the Jean Monnet chair and the Centre for Turkey and EU Studies. He was the programme director for political science and public administration at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul, manager of the Jean Monnet project SUMMIT and project officer for the Jean Monnet Centre […]

Recently retired from Global Affairs Canada, Ken Macartney is now an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. During his 35-year career in the Canadian foreign service, Ken served in many capacities, including as Ambassador to Sweden, Deputy High Commissioner to India, political officer at Canadian embassies in Norway, Sweden and Japan, Director General for South and Southeast Asia, as a desk officer dealing with such issues as the UN, relations with the Middle East and […]

Laurent Pech is Professor of European Law and Head of the Law and Politics Department at Middlesex University London. Laurent is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Bordeaux University. Professor Pech specialises in EU Public Law and has lectured in a variety of subjects including EU Constitutional Law, EU Internal Market Law, EU Competition Law and EU Fundamental Rights Law. Professor Pech is currently a member of the editorial board of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law and […]

César Arjona is Professor at ESADE (Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona). His  research focuses on issues related to  Jurisprudence or Legal Philosophy with a specialization in  Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Cultural Diversity (in Spain). Professor Arjona is member of the international relations team of ESADE Law School, where he works as academic director of the exchange program. Research Interests: Transnational Law; Legal Philosophy; Ethics in Global Governance; Theory of Law; Legal Reasoning; Society, Economics and Culture; Business in Society; Cultural […]

Simon Morris-Lange is Deputy Head of Research at the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (Sachverständigenrat deutscher Stiftungen für Integration und Migration, or SVR). Before joining SVR, Mr. Morris-Lange served as an analyst with the Illuminate Consulting Group, a science and research consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay area, and as Chief Operating Officer with iversity, a Berlin-based edutech company. Mr. Morris-Lange writes regularly on educational inequality, crossborder student mobility, and skilled migration. Research Interests: Education […]

Dr. Michael Ungar is among the best known writers and researchers on the topic of resilience in the world. His work has changed the way resilience is understood, shifting the focus from individual traits to the interactions between people and their families, schools, workplaces, and communities. As the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University, as well as a family therapist, he has helped to identify the most important factors […]

Dr. Wilfrid Greaves is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research principally examines the intersections between security theory and environmental politics with focuses on climate change, energy extraction, Indigenous peoples, and the circumpolar Arctic. He has also published studies on Canadian foreign policy, complex peace operations, counterinsurgency, and Arctic governance. Dr. Greaves is author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and his first book, Indigenizing Arctic Security: Polar […]

A leading political sociologist on the island of Ireland, Dr Hayward’s expertise centres on European integration, cross-border cooperation and conflict transformation on the island of Ireland. She is one of the most high profile academic commentators on the subject of Brexit and the Irish border. In the course of 2017, she has been invited to give presentations/keynote speeches to several academic and non-academic events. This includes: the Magill Summer School, the John Hewitt Sumer School, the NI Pensioners’ Parliament, the […]

Dr. B.M.R. (Martin) van der Velde is Associate professor of Geography in the Department of Geography, Planning & Environment at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Dr. van der Velde has written extensively on issues related to EU regions, border regions and twin cities; cross-borders economical, social and political networks; borders as barriers; spatial identity; and borders as mental and psychological constructs. Research Interests: Euregions, border regions and twin cities, Cross-borders economical, social and political networks, Borders as barriers, Spatial […]

Andrew Griffith is the author of Multiculturalism in Canada: Evidence and Anecdote, providing an integrated view of how well multiculturalism is working, Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism, describing the relationship between the bureaucratic and political levels and, “Because it’s 2015 …” Implementing Diversity and Inclusion, analyzing the diversity of the 2015 election and political appointments. He regularly comments on citizenship, multiculturalism and related issues, in his blog, Multiculturalism Meanderings, as well in the media. Andrew was the former […]

Louisa Taylor is co-founder and director of Refugee 613, an innovative information and mobilization hub created by a network of community partners in Ottawa, Canada to support the welcome and integration of refugees. Refugee 613 provides information and training to the public, volunteers and private sponsors of refugees, fosters collaboration between service providers and develops pathways for public engagement in refugee support. An award-winning newspaper journalist in her previous life, Louisa is also founder of @datafestOTT which uses collaborative learning to explore intersections between […]