Persons

Dennis Gottschlich is a doctoral researcher in Economics at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE). His broad research interests include labor economics, future of work and unintended side-effects of competition on workers. He is an applied empirical microeconomist and focus on mental health, social mobility and social capital. Currently he studies economic determinants of mental illnesses, and more general, in psychological distress. He is on deepen the knowledge in this fields to improve policies and highlight the importance of this underresearcherd topic mental health. His current research focuses on the nexus between austerity measures and depressions.

Paddy Siyanga Knudsen is a Zambian national with over 17 years of professional experience as a development economist. She holds a Master’s in Financial Economics from SOAS and a BSc in Development and Economics from the London School of Economics. Her work covers development cooperation, regional integration and migration governance. Her experience includes supporting governments, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), bilateral development partners, EU institutions, civil society and UN agencies in engagement strategies, research, programme formulation, implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation. On migration governance, she has worked with IOM, UNESCO, UNHCR, EU institutions, civil society, foundations and diaspora organisations in continental Europe, Jordan, China, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe as well as other assignments in West and East Africa. Her areas of interest in migration governance include labour migration, migration and development as well as diaspora engagement. She is a Vice President of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora & Transnationalism (GRFDT), a member of GFMD civil society International steering committee, a member of UN network on migration workstream on remittances/diaspora as well as a member of the GIZ Diaspora Advisory Board. She also coordinates the African nonstate actors’ platform on GFMD/GCM.

Angelica Vascotto is a pan-European Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), where she focuses her work on the Balkans, EU enlargement and security. She is also an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Ca' Foscari University and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Trieste for IR and Strategic Studies. She obtained her PhD in Institutions and Policies in cotutelle agreement between the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan and the University of Sarajevo. She holds a MA in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies from King's College London and a BA in Linguistic Sciences for International Relations from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

Tiago Santos Pereira, DPhil in Science and Technology Policy Studies from SPRU, University of Sussex, has been a Coordinating Researcher at the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection - CoLABOR, where he led the research line on the impacts of technology on work and employment. Continuing to collaborate with CoLABOR, he has recently taken up the post of Director of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES), which is one of the associate partners that constituted CoLABOR. His research has also focused on the policies and governance of science and technology and the modes of articulation of knowledge between public sector research, business, public decision making and society. He is Co-Director of the Doctoral Programme 'Governance, Knowledge and Innovation', a partnership between CES and the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra. In 2022, he was nominated member of the National Council on Science, Technology and Innovation (CNCTI).