A management team has been constituted by the Board of Directors, and consists of Isabelle Chopin, Director of the Anti-discrimination programme and Thomas Huddleston, Director of the Migration and Integration programme. Isabelle Chopin has also been nominated Acting Director, in addition to her responsibility as Director of the Anti-discrimination programme.
Isabelle Chopin has 20 years experience in working in the non-discrimination field, working at both European/international and national/local level as well as at governmental and non-governmental level and was leading the Starting Line Group campaign for the adoption of European legislation fighting discrimination in the 90s. Since then Isabelle has been initiating and has been involved in many projects on non-discrimination and integration, including various training projects (delivering training on non-discrimination issues, capacity building, situation testing, etc.), equality data collection, European foundations, anti-discrimination clauses in public procurement, Roma integration. She coordinates the European Network of Legal Experts in the Non-discrimination Field since its creation (she was coordinating and editing the law review, research and publications on anti-discrimination) and is responsible for the newly created European Equality Law Network for the anti-discrimination strand. Isabelle’s major interest are the practical implementation of legislation on the national level, anti-discrimination and related issues, and processes to enhance CSOs capacity to act.
Thomas Huddleston coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on immigration and legal immigration. He currently serves as the EU Integration Expert for the European Website on Integration. He is the international research coordinator of the Migrant Integration Policy Index and served as co-author of the 2007 edition and principal author of the 2011 and 2015 editions. He has coordinated research for the EU’s Indicators on Migrant Integration, the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration, the Immigrant Citizens Survey and the UNHCR Budapest’s pilot of the Refugee Integration Evaluation Tool. He is a member of the consortium of EUDO-Citizenship, the main source of information on citizenship policies in Europe and the Americas. Thomas’ major research interests are citizenship, family reunification, refugee integration, political participation, the transfer of best practice and understanding the implementation and impact of integration policies. He also chairs the quarterly migration subgroup of the NGO Platform on EU Migration and Asylum.
