Elizabeth Collett is a Global Fellow at MPI, and is a member of Australia’s Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration (MACSM) and chair of MACSM’s Expert Subcommittee, which offers advice and research insight to inform government migration policy. She previously was Special Adviser for Policy and Strategy to the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and before that was Founding Director of MPI Europe in Brussels and Senior Advisor to MPI's Transatlantic Council on Migration.

Thomas Lacroix is CNRS Director of research in geography. He works on the relationships between immigrant transnationalism and the state, with a focus on North African transnationalism. He extensively published on the migration and development relationship, diasporic memory, the moral geography of migration or the theory of transnationalism.

Natasha N. Iskander, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, conducts research on the relationship between migration and economic development. She looks at the ways that immigration and the movement of people across borders can provide the basis for the creation of new knowledge and of new pathways for political change. 

T. Alexander Aleinikoff is Executive Dean, The New School for Social Research, and served as Director of the Zolberg Institute from January 2017 – December 2024. He received a J.D. from the Yale Law School and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.

Alex has written widely in the areas of immigration and refugee law and policy, transnational law, citizenship, race, and constitutional law. 

Claudia Masferrer is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies, Coordinator of the Seminar Migration, Inequality, and Public Policies, and Member of the Research Group on Demographic Dynamics at El Colegio de México. Claudia holds a PhD in Sociology from McGill University, an MSc in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the Institituo Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

 Prof. Leander Kandilige is an Associate Professor of Migration Studies at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Northampton and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He holds a D.Phil. (PhD) in Migration Studies from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Mazin Sidahmed previously worked for the Guardian US in New York during the 2016 US elections, where he covered a variety of issues including surveillance and criminal justice, as well as the rise of hate crimes following the election. Mazin left the news desk to join the award-winning Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab where he helped develop new mobile-specific story formats.

Mira Siegelberg is Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research. She is a historian with interests in European and U.S. intellectual history, the history and theory of rights, law and legal thought, and the politics of citizenship and migration. Her research focuses particularly on the intellectual, legal, and institutional formation of modern international order.