Keynote Speakers
Nuria Oliver
Nuria Oliver is Chief Data Scientist at Data-Pop Alliance and Chief Scientific Advisor at the Vodafone Institute. She is one of the world’s foremost computer scientists working on machine-learning based computational models of human behavior, human computer-interaction, intelligent user interfaces, and mobile computing. She is also well known for her work on Big Data for Social Good. She holds a PhD in perceptual intelligence from MIT. She worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research (2000-2007), as the first female Scientific Director at Telefonica R&D (2007-2016) and the first Director of Research in Data Science at Vodafone (2017-2019).
Marzia Rango
Marzia Rango works as a Research and Data Officer at IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin, where she leads the centre’s work on data innovation and capacity-building. She is currently also managing a project focusing on migration on the Central Mediterranean Route. Prior to joining GMDAC, Marzia worked at IOM’s Research Unit in Geneva, and as a Research Assistant at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She has previous experience as an MEP assistant at the European Parliament in Brussels and as a consultant in the private sector. Marzia holds an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA in Economics from Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
Hillel Rapoport
Hillel Rapoport is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a research fellow at IZA, CESifo, Harvard CID, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Researh (LISER) and European Development Network (EUDN). He serves as scientific advisor to CEPII and as Director of the department “Dynamics” of the Migration Institute in Paris. A member of Bar-Ilan University until 2013, he held visiting positions at Stanford University (in 2001-03) and at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (in 2009-11). Since 2008 he is the scientific coordinator of the “Migration and Development” annual conferences jointly organized by the World Bank and the French Development Agency. His research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration and on the economics of immigration, diversity, and refugees’ integration.
Rapoport is the editor of two books (“Brain gain or brain drain: the international competition to attract talent”, Oxford University Press, 2012, and “The economics of immigration and social diversity”, Elsevier 2006). He has published extensively in journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Research Policy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Public Economics, World Development or International Migration Review. According to the Repec-Ideas Ranking, he ranks as one of the leading economists in migration economics, and among the top-200 researchers in all fields of economics for research in the last ten years.