It's broke, let's fix it: rethinking migration management

An expert in European immigration and asylum law, Philippe De Bruycker is also the founder of the Academic Network for Legal Studies in Immigration and Asylum in Europe (ODYSSEUS network). In addition to his academic credentials, De Bruycker has a wealth of practical experience in the field: he previously served as the main administrator at the European Commission Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs, where he drafted and negotiated draft directives on immigration, and also sat as a substitute judge on the Belgian Permanent Committee for Appeals for Refugees.

As a member of the European Migrant Advisory Board, an initiative of the EU Urban Agenda Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees, Anila Noor is responsible for providing advice on immigration and asylum-related policies. Having long worked in matters dealing with peacebuilding, refugee integration, and education of women and girls, she is an active advocate for refugee resettlement and socio-political engagement in Europe. Noor also founded New Women Connectors, a movement to give a voice to migrant and refugee women living across Europe.

Shada Islam is responsible for policy oversight of Friends of Europe’s initiatives, activities and publications. She has special responsibility for issues related to the Future of Europe, Migration, the Asia Programme and the Development Policy Forum. Shada is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Natolin) where she teaches Asia-Europe relations and has been selected as a fellow by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She has been named as one of twenty most influential women in Brussels by Politico. Shada is the former Europe correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and has previously worked on Asian and Migration issues at the European Policy Centre. She is one of the authors of Friends of Europe’s much-read “Frankly Speaking” commentary and is sought after as a speaker, commentator, columnist and moderator at high-level European and global events. Shada also continues to write on EU foreign and security policy, EU-Asia relations and trade and development issues for leading Asian, European and international publications and academic journals.