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About

Dr. Eleonora Milazzo is Joint Research Fellow at the Egmont Institute and the European Policy Centre in Brussels. Her current work focuses on the policy nexus between migration, climate change, and security.

Eleonora works at the interface of academia and policy making. She has held research positions at the Migration Policy Centre in Fiesole, the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford, and Carnegie Europe in Brussels. Before turning to migration and asylum in the EU, she worked in the area of climate change governance and EU-Russia relations at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin and the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow.

 

She holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (2021) and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King’s College London (2021-2022). As part of her academic work, Eleonora focused on offering a normative account of the ethics of refugee protection in the EU. She has published in international academic journals on this topic and her book Refugee Protection and Solidarity. The Duties of EU Member States is due for publication with Oxford University Press in Spring 2023.

 

Eleonora consults for UN agencies, NGOs, national authorities, and international research consortia on issues related to development cooperation, migration, displacement, and social inclusion.

Current positions

Joint Research Fellow, Egmont Institute and European Policy Centre, Brussels

Consultant, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Previous work
experience

Sep 2021– Aug 2022

King's College London

Postdoctoral Research Associate, ERC Project "EUSOL-Solidarity in the EU"

2016–2020

European University Institute, EUI

PhD Researcher

2018 – present

Independent consultant

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Transition and Recovery Division, Department of Peace and Development Coordination and Iraq Country Office (Jul-Oct 2022)

METAdrasi - Action for Cooperation and Development (May-Oct 2022)

FIERI – Research Forum on Immigration at Collegio Carlo Alberto, H2020 “Whole-COMM: Migrant integration in small communities” (2021-2022)

European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), SOC/668 Opinion on the Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion (Jan-May 2021)

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Coordination Office for the Mediterranean (various projects, May 2019-Oct 2022)

ReSOMA-Research Social Platform On Migration And Asylum (Jun-Aug 2018)  

Oct 2018 – Jul 2019

Migration Policy Centre, Fiesole

Research Assistant

2015 – 2016

Global Policy Journal, Durham

Editorial intern

May – Jul 2015

Carnegie Europe, Brussels

Research intern

Jun – Oct 2014

Ecologic Institute, Berlin & Atlantic Council, Washington D.C.

European Fellow, Arctic Climate Change Emerging Leaders (ACCEL)

Feb – Jun 2014

Russian International Affairs Council, Moscow

Junior Research Analyst

Education

2016 - 2021

PhD in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute

Supervisors: Rainer Bauböck, Jennifer Welsh

Examiners: Matthew Gibney, Sarah Fine

2019

Visiting Fellowship, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

2015 - 2016

MSc in Global Politics (distinction), Durham University

2013 - 2015

Double MA in International Relations, LUISS (Rome) & MGIMO (Moscow)

2010 - 2013

BA in Political Sciences, LUISS (Rome)

2012

Erasmus Exchange Programme, University of Amsterdam

Full CV and references available upon request.

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