Professor Dr. Kay Hailbronner, L.L.M is professor of public law, international law, and European law at the University of Konstanz. He obtained his masters of Laws from McGill University in Montreal, and, in 1971, his Doctorate of law from the University of Heidelberg. From 1988 to 1992, Professor Hailbronner was Judge at the Administrative Appeal Court of Baden-Württemberg. Since 1990, he has been Legal Counsel for the Federal Government in asylum and immigration law, and European law. He is the Director of the Centre for International and European Law on Immigration and Asylum

at the University of Konstanz, which was established in 1994. He is widely published in the area of Immigration and Asylum Law, and is co-editor of the leading journal in aliens law in Germany

 

 

 

 

Heike MacKerron is Senior Director for Europe of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and is responsible for the management of GMF’s offices in Berlin, Bratislava, Paris, Brussels, Belgrade, and Ankara. Additionally, she works closely with GMF’s president and vice president on overall strategic development for the organization. Ms. MacKerron first joined GMF in 1993 as a program officer responsible for research support programs for German academics and the study tour program for grantees in East Germany. More recently, she served as director of the Berlin office and as program officer for the Immigration and Integration program. Before coming to GMF, Ms. MacKerron worked as a marketing specialist for the European office of Nichiman Company and the Western German State Bank in Düsseldorf, and she was office manager of the European office of YouOne Construction Company. She is a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations and the New Traditions Network of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. She is also an advisory board member of the Council on Public Policy in Bayreuth, the Usable project of the Körber Foundation in Hamburg, and Partner für Berlin. Ms. MacKerron received an M.A. in American studies, sociology, and journalism from the Free University of Berlin and simultaneously worked as a researcher for a German Science Foundation project on educational and political challenges of integration of Turkish school children in Berlin.

 

 

 

Dr. Philip L. Martin is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California-Davis, chair of the University of California’s Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, and editor of the monthly Migration News and the quarterly Rural Migration News. Dr. Martin has earned a reputation as an effective analyst who can develop practical solutions to complex and controversial migration and labor issues. In the U.S., Martin was the only academic appointed to the Commission on Agricultural Workers to assess the effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. He received UCD’s Distinguished Public Service award in 1994. Dr. Martin assessed the prospects for Turkish migration to the European Union between 1987 and 1990, evaluated the effects of immigration on Malaysia’s economy and labor markets in 1994–95, and was a member of the Binational Study of Migration between 1995 and 1997. In 2001–02, he assessed the options for dealing with unauthorized migration into Thailand. Dr. Martin received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

 

 

Dr. Susan F. Martin is the Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration. Dr. Martin also directs the Certificate Program in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies, open to Masters-level students at the university. A longtime expert on immigration and refugee policy, Dr. Martin came to Georgetown University after having served as the Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, a bipartisan panel appointed by the President and Congressional leadership. During this period, she also served as U.S. coordinator for the Binational Study on Migration between Mexico and the United States, a joint study with the Mexican government. Prior to joining the Commission’s staff, Dr. Martin was the Director of Research and Programs at the Refugee Policy Group. Dr. Martin has conducted field-based research on refugee issues in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America in addition to her work on U.S. and European immigration and refugee policy. She served as managing editor of World Migration Report: 2000, published by the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations. She is the author of Refugee Women and numerous monographs and articles on immigration and refugee policy. Dr. Martin co-chairs the Cooperative Efforts to Manage Emigration, an expert group that is identifying ways in which immigration destinations can work more effectively with source and transit countries to manage migration and reduce emigration pressures. Dr. Martin earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. in History from Douglass College, Rutgers University.

 

 

 

Dr. Ferruccio Pastore is currently the coordinator of the research area on “International Migration/New Security Issues” and Deputy Director of the Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale (CeSPI), an independent think tank based in Rome. In addition to research activity, he works as an adviser for Italian institutions and international organizations. Among his most recent publications on migration issues are: “Formation, Structure and Current Evolution of the EU Entry Control System,” in N. Walker, ed., Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004; “L’Europa di fronte alle migrazioni. Divergenze strutturali, convergenze settoriali,” in Quaderni di Sociologia, 2006 (forthcoming), “The policies for the management of international migrations from the XXth to the XXIst century. A tale of territorial sovereignties and people on the move,” in Genus, LXI (No. 3-4), 2006 (forthcoming); “L’anello debole del mercato comune. Migrazioni, modello sociale e processo di integrazione europea,” in F. Pastore - M. Zupi, eds., L’Europa in gioco. Dilemmi del processo d’integrazione e modelli di società, CeSPI-Istituto Gramsci Yearbook on European Integration, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006 (forthcoming). Ferruccio Pastore obtained his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in 1996.

 

 

 

Dr. Randall J. Soderquist joined GMF in 2005 and became Director of the Economic Policy Program. Prior to joining GMF, Dr. Soderquist served on the staff of Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico as Senior Policy Advisor for Economic and International Affairs and Democratic Staff Director of the Subcommittee on International Trade. During his time in the Senate, he worked on international trade, labor, and finance issues, and served as a liaison between Senate and Congressional working groups, including the Senate Science and Technology Caucus, the Congressional Competitiveness Caucus, the Forum on Technology and Innovation, and the New Economy Task Force. Dr. Soderquist has an extensive background in East Asia, having worked as Associate Program Manager for the Japan and Korea Program at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC, where he managed cooperative science and technology programs between United States and Japan, and he has traveled frequently to the region researching American-Japanese economic collaboration. Dr. Soderquist holds a PhD in political science from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as masters and undergraduate degrees from the University of Washington, Jackson School of International Studies, and California State University, Sonoma, respectively.

 

 

 

Dr. Patrick Weil returned to the German Marshall Fund in 2005 as a senior transatlantic fellow, based out of Paris, to advise GMF’s Immigration and Integration program. He previously worked as a transatlantic fellow with GMF in Washington, DC, where he researched recent changes in American immigration and integration policies as part of a broader comparison with European practices. In addition to his current responsibilities at GMF, Dr. Weil serves as director of the Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration, and Citizenship Policies (CEPIC) at the University of Paris1, Panthéon–Sorbonne. He also holds an appointment as senior research fellow at the French National Research Center (CNRS) in Paris. In 2003, Dr. Weil served on the French presidential commission on secularism established by Jacques Chirac. The commission’s findings led to the adoption of 25 different measures, including the banning of conspicuous religious symbols in France’s public schools (commonly known as the “head-scarf law”). Dr. Weil was also appointed by the French government in 1997 to prepare a report on immigration and nationality policy reform, which served as the basis of immigration and nationality legislation passed by the French parliament the following year. Dr. Weil holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and an MBA from the ESSEC Business School. He received a B.A. in public law from the University of Paris1, Panthéon–Sorbonne.

 

 

 

Dr. Michael Werz is the Director of the Hessen Universities Consortium in New York, a Liaison office for twelve German universities and the Ministry for Arts and Science in the state of Hessen anda Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington D.C. He completed a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1998 at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. He was a Visiting Scholar in the History Department (where he worked with Martin Jay) at the University of California, Berkeley 1996/1997, a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard 2000/2001, and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 2002. He has taught as Professor of Sociology at the University of Hannover, Germany from 1998 to 2005, where his primary interests lay in the Frankfurt School theory, the philosophy of the European Enlightenment, and 20th century American thought. He is the author of multiple publications. His recent research focuses on the socio-historical and academic factors involved in the invention of ethnicity and identity politics.