Solon Ardittis has over 30 years of experience in research, evaluation and policy development in the fields of immigration, asylum, employment policy and education in Europe and internationally. He has directed or contributed to over 100 research, evaluation and programme management assignments in over 50 countries, on behalf of various Directorates-General of the European Commission (DG Migration & Home Affairs, DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, DG International Cooperation and Development, DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, DG Regional Policy, DG Research and Innovation, DG Environment, DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, and the Secretariat General), the European Parliament, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Frontex, national government authorities, international organisations (ILO, UNDP, IOM, NATO) and academia. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and a Research Associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) of the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of over 100 publications on migration and asylum policy, as well as on terrorism, and a regular commentator on current EU migrant/refugee policy developments in a wide range of European and US media. He is also the founder and co-editor of Migration Policy Practice, a bimonthly journal directed at senior officials in Government, EU institutions and international organisations published jointly with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).