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Rose Anne Abdilla
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Rose-Anne obtained her Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) degree from the University of Malta in 1999 with a dissertation entitled: Value for Money in selected Charitable Organisations in Malta. After working for two years in the industry, she joined the Archdiocese of Malta and is currently the Financial Controller responsible for diocesan entities. Over the years she has worked closely with entities in different sectors including residential homes for children and the elderly, and media amongst others. In her current role she sits on a number of Boards including that of the Migrants Commission Foundation.


Prof Daniela Debono
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Daniela DeBono is Head of Department and Associate Professor at the Department for Anthropological Sciences where she teaches courses, among others, on refugees, migration and displacement, borders, humanitarian action and human rights. Daniela has conducted long-term ethnographic research on unauthorised migration and asylum across the Mediterranean, border control and management in Malta, Lampedusa and Western Sicily. She also led an ethnographic study on deportation from Sweden. Daniela is a member of the Malmo Institute for the Studies of Migration, Citizenship and Diversity; a member of the Anna Lindh Foundation Advisory Board; a member of the Archdiocese's Justice and Peace Commission, and the country expert for the Global Citizenship Observatory at the European University Institute.


Denitsa Markova
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Denitsa is a social worker and PhD researcher based in Malta, supporting asylum seekers and refugees at Mount Carmel Hospital within the Ministry for Health and Active Ageing. She also works as a Research Support Officer at the University of Malta, supporting the University’s Platform for Migration and the Mediterranean Journal of Migration. Her research explores the intersection of asylum and substance use. She has worked in migration and forced migration across several European countries such as Belgium, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Denitsa holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Social Work and completed the European Regional Master’s Programme in Democracy and Human Rights, part of the Global Campus of Human Rights network.


Ibrahim Sheu Olanrewaju
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Ibrahim Sheu Olanrewaju was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and belongs to the Yoruba tribe. He attended the Birch Freeman High School in Nigeria (secondary School). He also studies at the Ibadan Polytechnic O.N.D., Financial Studies. In Malta, he studied hospitality and management studies. Ola is a father to four children. He worked as a steward and as a health & safety officer at ICH Malta between 2004 and 2017. He's been working as a part-time support worker with FSWS since 2011. Today he is self-employed and runs Xpress Garage. Ola has been self-employed since 2017.


Dr Ibtisam Sadegh
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Dr Sadegh is a University Lecturer at Faculty of Laws, Civil Law department, University of Malta. She obtained a Doctor of Law (LL.D.) degree at the University of Malta. For her thesis she conducted a comparative research between Sharia Councils, Muslim Arbitration Tribunal and the Beth Din in England and Wales, and the Ecclesiastical Tribunals in Malta. As a PhD researcher in the ERC project Problematizing ‘Muslim Marriages’: Ambiguities and Contestations, she is currently conducting ethnographic research with interfaith couples in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan North African coast. She is very much active as a Pro Bono lawyer with Asylum Seekers and within the Law Clinic at the University or Malta.


Marija Zahra
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Marija Zahra is a social worker and is currently the Principal Social Worker at the Directorate for Educational Services within the Education Department. She has 20 years of experience as a Social Worker having spent, working in various sectors of the social work field from child protection to community services. Along the years she has been engaged in various voluntary initiatives.

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