Professor Sandra Lavenex, along with Professor Florian Trauner, teaches "EU Asylum and Migration Policy in Global Context" specialist course at Natolin. The course focuses on mastering the principal elements of, and scholarly debates on the EU asylum and migration acquis in its internal and external dimension as well as the main international institutions in this domain.
Sandra Lavenex is Professor of European and International Politics at the University of Geneva and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Her research focuses on European and international migration policy, EU external relations, and international institutions more broadly. She obtained her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 1999 and has since held positions at the Universities of Zurich, Bern, Lucerne and now Geneva. She joined the College of Europe in 2007 and has acted as external advisor for the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Swiss Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In 2024 she was elected member of the “Sachverständigenrat Migration”, an independent expert body on migration counselling the German government.
Sandra Lavenex has published widely on EU asylum/immigration policies and justice and home affairs more generally; on the projection of EU rules and norms to third countries and international institutions; and on democratic governance in the international realm. Her more recent research projects have focused on comparative regional migration governance (worldwide), the nexus of trade and migration policy, international cooperation on migration, the EU’s and US status as global regulators in different policy fields, and EU external differentiated integration, including third country participation in EU agencies and regulatory networks. For more information please visit her webpage at the University of Geneva: http://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/speri/membres/sandra-lavenex/ .