Despina Syrri

Despina Syrri served as Education Specialist at the UNICEF Refugee and Migrant response in Greece, and Advisor to the Regional Cooperation Council political department. She has been a visiting fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and director of research and international cooperation at the Immigration Policy Institute in Greece; worked with Reuters and Athens News, the Berlin Migration Netzwerk, British Council, the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre on issues of post-conflict development, migration, refugees, borders and the integration of the Western Balkans to the European Union. She has completed assignments with the OSCE/ODHIR, Council of Europe and EU Fundamental Rights Agency. Syrri taught Political Science and Political Anthropology at the American College of Thessaloniki. She has published journal articles and book chapters in Greek, South Slavic and English, and authored research papers and documentaries.