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Dr Anna Krasteva is an associate professor of political sciences at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. She is also a research fellow of CERMES [Centre for Refugees, Migration and Ethnic Studies] and the editor-in-chief of the journal, Southeastern Europe. Following her initial studies in Sofia, Anna then undertook postgraduate research in France, Germany and Canada before returning to her…

Dr Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and a permanent fellow at the IWM Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the advisory board of the ERSTE Foundation and a member of the global advisory board of the Open…

Alev Korun is a Turkish born member of the Austrian parliament. Arriving in Austria as a young girl, Alev attended secondary education in Austria before studying to become a political scientist in Vienna and Innsbruck. Following her studies, Alev originally worked in an advisory capacity with migrants in Austria. In 1999, she then moved into politics as an advisor to…

György Konrád is a distinguished Hungarian novelist and essayist based in Budapest. He was a dissident under the communist regime and one of the earliest to be published in the samizdat format and in the English-speaking world. In 1977 he and a colleague, Iván Szelényi, were detained for writing Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power. In 1988 he founded…

Esther Kokmeijer is a Dutch artist who aims to politically depict geographic phenomena. In her own words, she focuses on”…social relevance, [she is]…looking for the tension between meaningfulness and meaninglessness. …[her] projects are often attempts to seek possibilities to serve a global purpose from an artistic, philosophical and idealistic perspective; to discuss, to question…”. Esther is also active with and on…

Michael Kocáb is a Czech rock musician (for Pražský výběr) and a politician. He is currently a government minister responsible for human rights with Stranou zelených [the Czech Green Party] Initially involved in rock music, Michael Kocáb gradually became politically influential in the late 80s, being involved in several parliamentary commissions, mainly regarding the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechslovakia. He…

Anny Knapp leads asylkoordination österreich, an association defending the rights of immigrants in Austria. Amy is an expert in asylum law and holds many talks and workshops on the rights of migrants. Amy is also involved in multiple international projects and the co-ordination of the Austrian branch of the ECRE [European Council on Refugees and Exiles] network. Information valid as…

Peter Klinger is the manager of Social Integration for People in Need. Information valid as of winter 2012.

David Klimeš has been a commentator for the daily economics paper, E15, since 2008 before which he worked for Hospodářské noviny. This work brought him a nomination for journalist of the year in the category of commentaries in 2010. David has also published articles in Lidové noviny and Mladá fronta DNES and lectures on media studies both in the Czech Republic…

Thijs Kleinpaste studied history at Amsterdam University and worked as an intern for the D66 parliamentarian, Boris van der Ham. Thijs involvement with the party is, however, not just restricted to an intership, he also represents D66 in the council of Amsterdam’s Centrum district. In March 2013, Thijs made his publishing debut with Prometheus / Bert Bakker and the Dutch…

Alison Klayman is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and Hebrew and after graduating from Brown University she lived in China from 2006 to 2010, producing radio and television feature stories for NPR [National Public Radio]’s All Things Considered, AP Television, Voice of America, Current TV, and CBC. She recently reported the…

Chris Keulemans is a writer and journalist based in Amsterdam. He grew up in Baghdad, Iraq. In 1984 he founded the literary bookshop Perdu before starting work at the De Balie centre for culture and politics, first as a curator and then as its director. After working for De Balie he became the artistic director of Tolhuistuin, a free space for arts…