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Alice Massari is a humanitarian and migration specialist whose work connects scholarship with two decades of field and advisory experience across crisis-affected settings in Africa and the Middle East. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations and was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Copenhagen, leading a multi-year research project.

Her research examines how images shape migration governance and humanitarian action. She is the author of the open-access monograph Visual Securitization: Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance.

Alongside academia, Alice has served since 2020 as Humanitarian Adviser with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, delivering context analysis and strategic foresight for senior decision-makers, including extensive work on the Sudan crisis, donor coordination and joint advocacy. She is also an EU expert on migration and humanitarian action, supporting European Commission bodies with evaluation and policy analysis, including migration analysis work at the Joint Research Centre.

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Ana Beduschi is a Full Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, Law School. Her work examines the interaction between law and digital technologies, with a focus on artificial intelligence, data protection, international human rights law, and privacy. Her recent publications address regulatory approaches to digital technologies, synthetic data, extended reality, digital identity, and the implications of artificial intelligence for migration management and humanitarian action.

Professor Beduschi holds a PhD in Law (2011) from the University of Montpellier 1, where she also completed an LLB (2003), an LLM in International and European Law (2004), and an LLM in European Human Rights Law (2005). She earned an additional LLB in Law from University of São Paulo State (UNESP) in Brazil (2000) and was admitted to the São Paulo Bar in 2001.

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Anna Triandafyllidou is the Scientific Director of the Global Migration Institute. She is an internationally renowned sociologist and migration expert whose innovative interdisciplinary research influences debates and policies on migration and asylum; the management of cultural diversity, nationalism and identity; and the contemporary global challenges of migration and integration. Anna has held the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) since 2019 and is the Scientific Director of Bridging Divides, since 2023.

In addition to her academic scholarship and policy engagement, Anna is committed to developing novel ways to engage new audiences in research. She has worked extensively with creative media professionals to use documentary films and online digital storytelling platforms, educational videos and toolkits, online courses, and an award-winning migration podcast to ensure her research achieves the broadest impact possible.