Dr. Dragoș Radu, King’s College London
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Dragos Radu joined King’s College London in January 2017 from the Institute of East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg) where he was a postdoctoral fellow in economics. He was previously a teaching fellow in economics at UCL (SSEES), a research fellow at the Policy Studies Institute (London), the University of Edinburgh and the Hamburg Institute of International Economics.
His research interests are in labour and international economics. He works on the economic and political impacts of international migration and participated in policy evaluation studies for the DWP, HMRC and the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. He holds a PhD in economics from King’s and teaches intermediate econometrics and international economics.
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Dr. Ibrahim Sirkeci, Regent’s Univeristy, London
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Ibrahim Sirkeci is Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing & Director of Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies at Regent's University London (www.regents.ac.uk/rcts). Sirkeci is graduate of Bilkent (BA), Sheffield (PhD), and UCL (PGCert). He has widely published on migration, ethnicity, conflict, labour markets, transnational marketing and remittances. His current research projects focuses on remittances, migration and conflict relationship, integration of migrants, migrants and labour market disadvantages in the UK, transnational consumers and transnational market entry, and research reputation and business school choice. He has carried out research on migration and minorities in the UK, Turkey, Iraq, Germany, Romania, and Norway and his research has been funded by many organisations including the World Bank, Higher Education Academy, British Academy, European Commission and Ria Money Transfer among others. His books include Turkish Migration, Identity and Integration (TPL, 2015), Little Turkey in Great Britain (TPL, 2016), Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers (Springer, 2013), Migration and Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond (The World Bank, 2012, with J. Cohen and D. Ratha) and Cultures of Migration, the Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility (University of Texas Press, 2012, with J. Cohen), and The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006). Prof Sirkeci is editor of several journals including Migration Letters, and Remittances Review (www.tplondon.com/journals). Sirkeci has been a regular contributor to international conferences and he chairs The Migration Conference series (www.migrationcenter.org) since 2012. Personal website: www.regents.ac.uk/sirkeci
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