Migrant Smuggling Data and Research

Trafficking (UN.GIFT) and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda
Council on Illicit Trade and Organized Crime, which he chaired in 2010/2011. He
has lectured extensively on human trafficking and migrant protection.
Anne T. Gallagher AO (BA. LLB, M.Int.L, PhD) is a lawyer, practitioner,
teacher and scholar with an established international reputation in human
rights and the administration of criminal justice. She served as a UN human
rights official from 1992 to 2003, the last four years as special adviser to the
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In that capacity, she participated in
the development of international legal framework around human trafficking
and migrant smuggling, leading the UN Inter-Agency Group in the negotiation
process. Since resigning from the UN in 2003, Anne has held various leadership
and technical roles in an intergovernmental programme that aims to strengthen
legislative and criminal justice responses to human trafficking and related
exploitation in South-East Asia. Her other current positions include co-chair of
the International Bar Association’s Presidential Task Force on Trafficking; member
of the IOM Director General’s Migration Advisory Board; and academic adviser
at Doughty St Chambers, the United Kingdom’s largest civil rights practice. An
independent and award-winning scholar, she is widely recognized as a global
authority on the international law of human trafficking and migrant smuggling.
Ahmet İçduygu serves as the dean of College of Social Sciences and
Humanities at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He currently holds a dual
appointment as full professor at Koç – one in the Department of International
Relations and the other in the Department of Sociology. He is also the director
of the Migration Research Center at Koç University. He completed his PhD in
Demography at the Australian National University (ANU). He held visiting fellow
positions at Stockholm University, the University of Warwick, the University of
Manchester, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is an
elected member of the Science Academy in Turkey. He is involved in a couple of
European Union projects, such as TRANS-NET – Transnationalisation, Migration
and Transformation: Multi-level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism (FP7)
and EUMAGINE – Imagining Europe from Outside (FP7), both of which are
completed. EURA-NET – Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative
Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People (FP7) project is still ongoing
until 2017. In addition to these, Prof. Icduygu has conducted various research
projects for international organizations such as IOM, the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Labour
Organization (ILO). He teaches on migration studies, theories and practices of
citizenship, international organizations, civil society, nationalism and ethnicity,
and research methods.
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