Advisory Board

Dr. Oscar Mazzoleni is a professor in political science at the University of Lausanne where he leads the Research Observatory for regional research. He was invited as a visiting professor and research fellow at the...

Hercules Millas was born in 1940 and raised in Turkey; he presently lives in Greece. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Ankara University in 1998 and a B.Sc. in civil engineering at Robert...

Prof. em. Ides Nicaise has a background in economics and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Poverty and human capital, i.e. the relationships between persistent poverty and inequalities in the education system. Since 1989, he has...

Werner Pascha is an Emeritus Professor of East Asian Economic Studies/Japan and Korea at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. He served as the director of the...

Rik Torfs was born on October 16, 1956. After studying classics at secondary school, he obtained a Master of Law in 1979, a Master of Notarial Studies in 1980, and a Master of Canon Law...

Sir Graham Watson was born in March 1956 in Rothesay, Scotland, the son of a Royal Naval Officer and a teacher. He was educated at the City of Bath Boys’ School and at Heriot-Watt University,...

Irina von Wiese was born in Germany, the daughter and granddaughter of Polish and Russian refugees. After completing her law studies in Cologne, Geneva and Munich, she obtained a scholarship to study at the Harvard Kennedy School...

Ruth Wodak is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and affiliated to the University of Vienna. Besides various other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996, an...

Emilia Zankina is an Associate Professor in Political Science, Vice Provost for Global Engagement of Temple University, and Dean of Temple University Rome campus. She holds a Ph.D. in International Affairs and a Certificate in Advanced East...