Pedro Calado holds a degree and a master's in Geography, focusing on "Exclusion, Society and Territory," both from the Classic University of Lisbon. He is currently doing his PhD in Sociology, focusing on "Knowledge for Open and Inclusive Societies". He is a guest professor at several Universities, mainly on migration, social innovation, and evaluation themes, and has co-published several articles and books.
With over 25 years of experience in social inclusion, diversity, migration, and youth issues, before joining the Foundation in 2020, Pedro was, for six years, the Portuguese High Commissioner for Migration. At the same time, he was the National Coordinator of the Choices Program, a public policy that supports children and youth in vulnerable communities.

Calado chaired the OECD Working Party on Migration in Paris and was the Portuguese representative in the European Integration Network of the European Commission in Brussels. Before that, he founded several civil society organizations and was a consultant and external evaluator in national and international initiatives and organizations.

As High Commissioner for Migration, Pedro Calado received the United Nations Public Service Award in 2019, referring to the work of the National Support Centers for the Integration of Migrants, and the International Youth Justice Award in 2014 for the work conducted by the Choices Programme.

Fabrizio Tassinari is the Executive Director at the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance, where he develops the overall strategic direction, the design and the policy programme of the School.

Prior to joining the School, Tassinari served as Senior Researcher and Head of Foreign Policy Studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen. A recipient of a German government’s Alexander von Humboldt award, he has also been an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Social Science at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2012.

He published extensively on peer-reviewed journals and volumes and is the author of the book Why Europe Fears its Neighbors (Praeger) reprinted in an updated edition for the mass market and translated into Turkish. His new book The Pursuit of Governance: Nordic Dispatches on a New Middle Way was published in 2022 by CUP/Agenda and in Italian by Rubbettino. His writings and opinions regularly feature in mainstream international media, such as the Economist, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Le Figaro and Die Welt.

Prior to joining DIIS in 2009, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen and as an Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. He earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and a BA summa cum laude in Political Science from La Sapienza University in Rome.

Among his advisory positions, he served as a Fellow at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies and at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, as well as a senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin.

Joanna Krawczyk is a media development executive who builds socially impactful projects, with over 15 years of experience in media management and philanthropy. For over 4 years she has been the Head of News Partnerships in the Polish biggest legacy newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. Joanna has led major news collaborations with European and international media organisations and is the initiator and President of Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation, running the Ukrainian Media Fund and the first in Poland Investigative Reporting Grant Program. She is also the Chairwoman of Leading European Newspaper Alliance, the largest media network in Europe aiming at sharing content and technology practices, with Die Welt, El País, La Repubblica, Le Figaro, Le Soir, Tages-Anzeiger, Tribune de Genève and Gazeta Wyborcza on board.