Eurasylum's Monthly Policy Interviews

(ISSN 1756-1272)


From February 2004 to April 2013 Eurasylum has held monthly interviews of leading players in international migration and asylum affairs, within a range of policy, academic and practitioners’ areas of expertise.

Three basic principles having guided these interviews have been the policy relevance, topicality and international resonance of the themes addressed.

Eurasylum’s interviews are archived below and may be reproduced freely on condition that both the original source and the URL are explicitly acknowledged.




Interviews Archive


Ø 04/2013: Khalid Malik, Director of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, New York)

Ø 03/2013: Thomas A. Tass, Executive Director of BORDERPOL

Ø 02/2013: Ambassador Eva Åkerman Börje, Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)

Ø 01/2013: Krum Garkov, Executive Director of the EU Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice

Ø 12/2012: Alan Shatter TD, Minister for Justice and Equality of the Republic of Ireland

Ø 11/2012: Cecilia Wikström, Member of the European Parliament and Rapporteur on the recast of the Dublin Regulation

Ø 10/2012: Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS, Washington DC)

Ø 07/2012: Eleni Mavrou, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Cyprus

Ø 06/2012: Paul Bevan, Secretary General of Eurocities

Ø 05/2012: Dr Robert Visser, Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

Ø 04/2012: Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn)

Ø 03/2012: Christina Werner and Monika Wendleby, Swedish Migration Board and GDISC

Ø 02/2012: Petya Nestorova, Head of the Secretariat of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against THB

Ø 01/2012: Laurent de Boeck, Director of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Observatory on Migration

Ø 12/2011: Piotr Stachańczyk, Secretary of State, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Poland

Ø 11/2011: Kristalina Georgieva, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response

Ø 10/2011: Prof John Skrentny, Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California

Ø 09/2011: Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction

Ø 07/2011: William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Ø 06/2011: Ambassador Eduard Gnesa, Chair-in-Office of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)

Ø 04/2011: Dr Myria Vassiliadou, EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, European Commission, Brussels

Ø 03/2011: Dr Khalid Koser, Chair of the UK Independent Advisory Group on Country Information (IAGCI)

Ø 02/2011: Dr Jacob Rhyner, Director of the United Nations Institute for Environment and Human Security

Ø 01/2011: Robert Mocny, Director of US-VISIT, US Department of Homeland Security, Washington D.C.

Ø 12/2010: António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Ø 11/2010: Rob Wainwright, Director of EUROPOL

Ø 10/2010: Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs

Ø 09/2010: Gen. Brig. Ilkka Laitinen, Executive Director of FRONTEX

Ø 07/2010: Cécile Riallant, Head of the EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI)

Ø 06/2010: Prof. B. Ghosh (Columbia Graduate School of Public Administration) and Ambassador S. Marchi (ICTSD)

Ø 05/2010: Patricia Sto Tomas (National Development Bank of the Philippines) and Dilip Ratha (World Bank)

Ø 04/2010: Prof. Wiseman Nkuhlu (President of IOE) and NK Singh (Member of the Indian Parliament)

Ø 03/2010: Dr. Howard Duncan (Metropolis) and Prof. Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Ø 02/2010: Theodoros Skylakakis, Member of the European Parliament

Ø 01/2010: Dr. Forgács Imre, Minister of Justice and Law Enforcement of the Republic of Hungary

Ø 12/2009: Dr. Rainer Münz, Member of the EU Reflection Group

Ø 11/2009: Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Chair of the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee

Ø 10/2009: Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor

Ø 09/2009: Mario Sepi, President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

Ø 07/2009: Prof. Aleinikoff and Prof. Martin, World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Migration

Ø 06/2009: Tobias Billström, Minister of Migration and Asylum Policy of Sweden

Ø 05/2009: Prof. Rainer Bauböck, Director of the EU Observatory on Citizenship (EUCITAC)

Ø 04/2009: Gottfried Zürcher, Director General of ICMPD

Ø 03/2009: Pirkko Kourula, Director of the Europe Bureau, UNHCR

Ø 02/2009: Lisa S. Roney, Director of Research, USCIS, US Department of Homeland Security

Ø 01/2009: Morten Kjaerum, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)

Ø 11/2008: Eva Biaudet, OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings

Ø 10/2008: Chris Hedges, Chair of the European Committee on Migration (CDMG), Council of Europe

Ø 09/2008: Prof. David Metcalf, Chair of the United Kingdom Migration Advisory Committee

Ø 07/2008: Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Working Group on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC

Ø 06/2008: Esteban B. Conejos, Chair of the Second Global Forum on Migration and Development

Ø 05/2008: Prof. Richard Black, Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research

Ø 03/2008: Peter Veld, Director General of the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service

Ø 02/2008: Prof. Philippe De Bruycker, Coordinator of the Odysseus Academic Network

Ø 01/2008: Louis Michel, EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid

Ø 12/2007: Dragutin Mate, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia

Ø 11/2007: Dr. Ian Micallef, President of the Chamber of Local Authorities of the Council of Europe

Ø 10/2007: Hervé Carré, Director General of Eurostat (European Commission, Brussels)

Ø 09/2007: Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh, Director of the Trade in Services Division, WTO (Geneva)

Ø 07/2007: Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany

Ø 06/2007: Jonathan Faull, Director General for Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission

Ø 05/2007: Koos Richelle, Director General of EuropeAid (European Commission, Brussels)

Ø 04/2007: H.E. Régine de Clerq, Ambassador for Migration and Asylum of the Kingdom of Belgium

Ø 03/2007: John P. Martin, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the OECD (Paris)

Ø 02/2007: Dr. L. Alan Winters, Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank

Ø 01/2007: Michele Clark and Shivaun Scanlan, OSCE (Vienna) and ODIHR (Warsaw)

Ø 12/2006: Brunson McKinley, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Ø 11/2006: Frans Bouwen and Philip Rudge, The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration

Ø 09/2006: Peter Sutherland, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Migration

Ø 07/2006: Kari Rajamäki, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Finland

Ø 05/2006: Peer Baneke, General Secretary of ECRE

Ø 04/2006: Karel Kovanda, Special Representative of the European Commission for Readmission Policies

Ø 03/2006: Paul de Guchteneire, Chief, International Migration Section, UNESCO (Paris)

Ø 02/2006: Barbara Hendricks, UNHCR Lifetime Goodwill Ambassador

Ø 01/2006: Tony McNulty MP, Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality of the United Kingdom

Ø 12/2005: Liese Prokop, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Austria

Ø 10/2005: Franco Frattini, EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security

Ø 09/2005: Eduard Gnesa, Director of the Swiss Federal Office for Migration

Ø 08/2005: Janna Valik, Director General of the Swedish Migration Board

Ø 07/2005: Dr. Howard Duncan, Executive Director of Metropolis (Ottawa)

Ø 06/2005: Günter Piening, Commissioner for Integration and Migration of the Berlin Senate

Ø 05/2005: Trygve G. Nordby, Director General of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration

Ø 04/2005: Manolo Abella , former Director at the International Labour Office (ILO, Geneva)

Ø 03/2005: Antonio Cavaco, Director General of ECHO, European Commission (Brussels)

Ø 02/2005: Rob Visser, Director General for International Affairs and Immigration, Dutch Ministry of Justice

Ø 01/2005: Dr. Walter Kälin, Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons

Ø 12/2004: Simon Tonelli, Head of the Migration Division at the Council of Europe (Strasbourg)

Ø 11/2004: Raymond Hall, Director for Europe, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Ø 10/2004: Dr. Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe

Ø 09/2004: Joel Budd, The Economist (London)

Ø 07/2004: Margus Leivo, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia

Ø 06/2004: Dr. Christopher Hein, Director of the Italian Council for Refugees; former Chairman of ECRE

Ø 05/2004: Robert J.E. Evans, Member of the European Parliament

Ø 04/2004: Dr. Jeff Crisp, Director of Policy and Research, Global Commission on International Migration

Ø 03/2004: Richard E. Norton, Executive Vice President of the National Biometric Security Project (NBCP)

Ø 02/2004: Dr. Frank Laczko, Head of the Research Division, International Organization for Migration


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