Meet the Instructors & Experts

MPD is led by an international group of experts who are drawn from a pool in the Metropolis International community, and are recruited based on their availability. Thus no two MPDs are exactly alike.

Instructors for March 2-6, 2015 NYC

Rajika Bhandari, Deputy Vice President of Research and Evaluation, Institute of International Education, USA; Howard Duncan, Executive Head, Metropolis, Canada; Christian Joppke, Executive Director of Institute of Sociology, University of Bern; John Mollenkop, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, Director of CUNY Center for Urban Research, New York, USA; Jan Niessen, Director, Migration Policy Group, Belgium; Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director, Global Diversity Exchange (GDX), Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada; Keiko Osaki, Chief of Demographic and Social Branch, United Nations Statistics Division, UNDESA, USA/Japan; John Oucho, Executive Director for the African Migration and Development Policy Centre in Nairobi and Professor of Population Studies as the University of Nairobi, Kenya; Demetri Papademetriou, Co-Founder and President of Migration Policy Institute Europe.

Metropolis Professional Development was developed with the input and support of an Experts Advisory Committee, featured below. Some of the Experts Committee also provide instruction for MPD.

Mikel Araguas

Secretary-General of Andalucía Acoge Federation

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Harald Bauder

Professor of Geography and Academic Director at the Centre for Immigration and Settlement Studies at Ryerson University

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Richard Bedford

Professor of Population Geography at the University of Waikato and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at AUT University in Auckland

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Peter Bosch

Member of the Cabinet of EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström

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Daniel Cerván-Gil

Senior Project Director at the Metropolis Secretariat

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Young-hee Cho

Researcher at the Migration Research and Training Centre of the International Organization for Migration

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Jonathan Crush

CIGI Chair in Global Migration and Development at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and a global development studies Professor at Queen’s University

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Debbie Douglas

Executive Director of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)

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Howard Duncan

Executive Head of the Metropolis Project and Secretariat

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Jaime Enachescu

Program Manager at the United Way of Calgary and Coordinator of the Calgary Local Immigration Partnership

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Elwira Felczak

Manager of Settlement & Integration with the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization

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Justin Gest

Lecturer in the Departments of Government and Sociology at Harvard University & Co-Founder and Deputy Director of the Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science

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Sandra Harder

Former Director General of Strategic Policy and Planning at Citizenship and Immigration Canada

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Lesleyanne Hawthorne

Professor (International Workforce) at the University of Melbourne

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Jenna Hennebry

Director of the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) located at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) at Wilfred Laurier University

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Daniel Hiebert

Professor of Geography at University of British Columbia and co-Chair of the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Working Group on Immigration

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Graeme Hugo

ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of Geography and Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre at the University of Adelaide

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Chung Ki-seon

Head of Research at the Migration Research and Training Centre of the International Organization for Migration

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Ümit Kiziltan

Director General of the Research and Evaluation Branch at Citizenship and Immigration Canada

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David Manicom

Director General of the Immigration Policy Branch at Citizenship and Immigration Canada

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James Milner

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University

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Katrina Murray

Regional Director (UK/Gulf) of the Canadian Immigrant Integration Program (CIIP)

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Imelda Nicolas

Chairperson of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) and is a member of the Summit Advisory Committee

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Jan Niessen

Director of the Migration Policy Group

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Nick Noorani

Founder of Canadian Immigrant Magazine and Managing Partner of Destination Canada

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Silvia Nuñez

Director of the Center for North American Research (CISAN) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

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Con Pagonis

Multicultural Policy Advisor for the Municipal Association of Victoria

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Yuen Pau Woo

President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

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Ravi Pendakur

Associate professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa

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Sandra Pratt

a former official of the Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security for the European Commission

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Jan Rath

Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Member of the Center for Urban Studies and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) in the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam

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