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Professor Jian Shi is the vice president of Sichuan University, China, in charge of the Department of International Affairs and Human Resources. In addition to this he is an English professor at Sichuan University’s College of Foreign Languages and Cultural Studies and the director of the University’s European Studies Centre. He received his MA from Sichuan University and his PhD from…

Bertan Selim is currently a PhD candidate of Prof. Arjo Klamer at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He also works as a research manager at the Fontys Academy for the Creative Industries and Social Innovation and is in charge of strategy and policy at the Dutch institute for new media and e-culture, Virtueel Platform. His research activities are in the…

Mathieu Segers (1976, the Netherlands) is a professor of contemporary European history and European integration at Maastricht University and the dean of University College Maastricht. He has previously been a Fulbright-Schuman fellow at Harvard University’s Centre for European Studies and a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. And, from 2008-2016, he was…

Mary Fitzgerald is a writer, editor and campaigner and a former senior editor of Prospect. Information valid as of 2012.

Guido Ferilli is a lecturer and researcher at the IULM University, Milan. He has published on the issues of culture-led local development and performed consultancy roles for several public administrations in Italy and abroad. He often participates in scientific and creative residencies at prestigious cultural institutions in Italy and abroad, presents at scientific conferences worldwide and is the managing director…

Jens-Martin Eriksen, born 1955, is a Danish author, who debuted in 1985 with the erotic novel Nani. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the Danish Arts Foundation Lifetime Grant, the Adam Oehlenschläger Prize for Literature and the Jeanne and Henri Nathansen Memorial Grant. His many publications include Winter at Dawn; The Crime of Jonatan Svidt; The Author Disappears…

Marijn Duvenstein is the project manager for Mostra Communications, Brussels. He is a Strategy Group member of the ASfE [A Soul for Europe]] and holds a Master’s degree in business studies. Before moving to Mostra, Marijn worked as an assistant in diverse film productions (2000-2004), as a researcher at the PUM [Programma Uitzending Managers] development agency (2004), as Mexico correspondent…

Mia Doornaert is a Flemish journalist, working for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard and as an independent expert on international issues. She studied classical philology before taking up her post with De Standaard. While working as a journalist, Mia Doornaert has also worked on the board of the Association of Professional Belgian Journalists [AVBB] and was, from 1986-1992, president of…

Leonidas Donskis is a Lithuanian philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas and political commentator. He lives in Vilnius and in Brussels, where he serves as a member of the European Parliament, belonging to the right-of-centre Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. In Lithuania, he is known as a staunch defender of human rights and civil liberties. In 2004, the…

Paolo Do is a member of, and spokesman for, the ESC collective, based in Rome’s San Lorenzo district. Information valid as of winter 2012.

Alessandra Sciurba is a research fellow at the University of Palermo, undertaking a project on the wages of migrant women in Italy. She received her doctorate from the University of Palermo with a thesis on administrative detention centres and areas of concentration of migrants, which won the Dino Frisullo prize in 2008. Since 2010, she has worked for the Research…

Paul Scheffer is a Dutch sociologist, journalist & author. From 2003-2011, Paul Scheffer taught urban sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, he is a professor of European studies at Tilburg University and a columnist for NRC Handelsblad. He also publishes regularly in other European journals and magazines. In 2000, Scheffer wrote an essay entitled Het multiculturele drama [The Multicultural…