Team

Guia Gilardoni is an international research project manager at ISMU Foundation, where now is in charge for the International Relations, specifically with the European Commission and international research networks, being member of the Steering Group of Metropolis International Network and the Board of Directors of IMISCOE. Her topics of interest are European migration policy, refugees and migrant integration. Between 2013 and 2015 she was the coordinator of the project KING – Knowledge for Integration Governance funded by the European Commission, DG Home Affairs whose results has been brought to the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Integration in November 2014. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Research Methods from Catholic University of Milan, where she specialized in the integration of young generations in multicultural society, and a bachelor's degree in Modern History from Bologna University.

Mauro Bernasconi, with a Master’s Degree in Political Science, has worked for ISMU Foundation since 2003, where he has coordinated and managed the various project activities. As Chief Administrative Officer since 2012, he has been responsible for the Foundation’s administrative management, the financial reporting of projects and the overall resources management. He is also the head of the accounting department, and as a safety manager, he ensures workplace safety. In 2011, he broadened his budgeting expertise and his financial reporting skills by attending the Official Course in European Funding and Project Design. He has been the administrative manager of both national and international projects; among others: the analytical study investigating the effects of regularization programs for non-EU workers (Ministry of Labor, 2004-2006); L2 Certifica il tuo italiano (Lombardy Region, 2007-2014); Parliamoci chiaro (Ministry of Interior, FEI funds, 2009); Obiettivo Futuro (Ministry of Labor, 2009-2010) and KING – Knowledge for INtegration Governance (EC, DG HOME, 2013-2015).

Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Milan, Italy. He works as a researcher for Fondazione ISMU on a wide range of national and international projects. Pierre is also Honorary Fellow at the Centre for European Governance, University of Exeter, the UK and Teaching Assistant at the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations, Catholic University of Milan. His research interests revolve around the European Union, migration policies and policy evaluation.

Luca Merotta holds a M.A. in European Union studies from Leiden University and a M.A. in Transnational Politics from Paris 8 University. As Junior Project Manager at ISMU Foundation, he conducts research and manages projects on social policies, migration and international development with a focus on African countries. In the past he worked for the European Commission (DG Employment, social affairs and inclusion), for the network of children’s rights NGOs Eurochild and for the French Development Agency.

Marina D’Odorico holds a Ph.D. in Sociology & Research Methods from Catholic University of Milan. Since 2001, she works at ISMU Foundation. She has been involved, as senior researcher or in the role of coordinator, in many projects on migrant integration and asylum both at national and European level. She collaborated in writing the background note for the Ministerial Conference on Integration organized by the Italian Ministry of Interior in Nov. 2014. Her specific thematic areas of expertise include migrant integration processes, citizenship, reception and inclusion on asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection. On these topics, she published articles and monographies in Italian and in English.

Veronica Riniolo is Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology & Research Methods from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milan. Since 2008 she works at ISMU Foundation. She has been involved in many projects on immigrant integration, discrimination and on Roma socio-economic inclusion both at national and European level. Between 2013 and 2015 she coordinated the European project “Promoting digital literacy of Roma people toward their active citizenship”. She publishes her works in national and international journals. Her specific thematic areas of expertise include immigrant integration processes, citizenship, immigrant political participation and Roma socio-economic inclusion.

Magdalena Lesinska is Assistant Professor in Centre of Migration Research at University of Warsaw (CMR UW). She was awarded a PhD in Political Science in 2006 at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wrocław. Her PhD thesis was devoted to the comparative analysis of political inclusion of the immigrants in contemporary Europe. She completed MA Program in Nationalism Studies in Central European University in Budapest (2002) and MA Program in Political Science in University of Wroclaw (2001). In 2006-2008 she served as an Assistant Professor at University of Wrocław in the Department of European Studies. Since 2008 she has been employed in the CMR UW, in 2008-2013 she performed duties of a Deputy Director there. Her present research area includes migration policy at state and EU level, asylum policy and refugee integration, and political and public participation of immigrants. She is co-editor of several books, and author of dozen or so articles and working papers, among them analyses of migration policy of Poland and other CEE countries, and political.

Nicola Pasini is associate professor in Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Studies of Università degli Studi di Milano, where he teaches Political and Administrative Systems and Local Governance. Since 1995 he is the manager of the ISMU Foundation Welfare anf Health Department. He edited several essays on the redefinition of the Western welfare systems (including the relation between immigration and health), on the relations between ethics, politics and public administration, on sub-national governance, on the transformation of political parties and on the evolution of the Italian political system.