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En En Speakers Interparliamentary European Parliament 2014-2019 Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs LIBE_OJ (2018)0124_1 SPEAKERS INTERPARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE MEETING The European Agenda on Migration What about Legal Avenues and Integration? Wednesday 24 January 2018, 9.00 - 12.30 and 14.00 - 17.40 Brussels Room: JAN 4Q2 EN United in diversity EN FIRST 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 GONZÁLEZ 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 ŞAHIN 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. 2/10 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. 3/10 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 4/10 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 BJÖRK 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.
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