Reimagine Talks Reimagine Europa

Caroline de Gruyter is a journalist and lecturer based in Brussels. She is a European Affairs correspondent and columnist for the leading Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and a regular contributor to Foreign Policy, EUobserver and De Standaard. She spent more than twenty years covering Europe, from different corners of the continent.

In the new episode of Reimagine Talks, António Vitorino delves into the causes of migration, the challenges and negatives emotions that migrants can have in host communities and on how we can reimagine migration by fostering a mutual relation of interaction and trust.



António Vitorino is the former Director-General of the International Organisation for Migration (2018-2023) and former European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs (1999-2004). Vitorino was a Judge of the Constitutional Court in Portugal and Minister of the Presidency and the National Defence under the first government of António Guterres, currently serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Sir Geoffrey John Mulgan CBE (born 1961) is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). From 2011 to 2019 he was Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)[1] and visiting professor at University College London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne. In 2020, he joined the Nordic think tank Demos Helsinki as a Fellow.

Louise Fresco is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 2009, a foreign member of the French Academy of Agriculture, a non-resident member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry in Stockholm, a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Ingeniería in Madrid, a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and a foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Class of Natural Sciences in Brussels. She is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar of the Academy of Science South Africa.

Dino Pedreschi is professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (1989/90), at CWI Amsterdam (1993) and at UCLA (1995).Pedreschi’s current research interests are in data mining and logic in databases, and particularly in data analysis, in spatio-temporal data mining, and in privacy-preserving data mining. He is a member of the program committee of the main international conferences on data mining and knowledge discovery and an associate editor of the journal Knowledge and Information Systems.

Professor de la Feria was tax policy and legal drafting adviser to the Portuguese Government (2011-2012), and to the Government of Timor-Leste (2015-2016); has provided tax policy advice, and/or legal drafting advice to the Governments of Turkey, Uzbekistan, Mozambique, and Jordan, under the auspices of the IMF; and has assisted with the legal drafting of both the Angolan and Sao Tome and Principe’s new VAT laws, again under the auspices of the IMF. She has testified before the UK Houses of Parliament on international tax avoidance (2013), and online tax fraud (2017); before the European Parliament on tax havens (2017) and on VAT rates (2018); before the Parliaments of Timor-Leste (2016) and Sao Tome and Principe (2017) on VAT implementation; and before the Brazilian Congress on indirect tax reform (2020).

Professor de la Feria was listed two years running (2015-2016) in the Global Tax 50, by the International Tax Review, as one of the most influential tax people in the World; was co-recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Women in Tax Award, awarded by the Tax Analysts; and was recognised in the 100 Years of Women in Tax, as one of the most influential women in tax in the last 100 years, by the International Fiscal Association (IFA). She features regularly in general media outlets discussing developments in taxation policy around the world, and worked with the BBC Panorama and the Guardian as an expert on the “Paradise Papers” leaks (2017)