Eleonora Milazzo
Biography
Dr. Eleonora Milazzo is a Research Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre in Florence, where she works on research-policy collaboration and the development of the Migration Research-to-Policy Co-Lab. She is also a Senior Adviser at the European Policy Centre and an Associate Fellow at the Egmont Institute in Brussels.
Thematically, her work focuses on EU migration and asylum policies, social inclusion, development cooperation, and mobility in the context of climate change. She is the author of the book Refugee Protection and Solidarity. The Duties of EU Member States (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Eleonora has a background in think-tanking, policy analysis, and academic research.
Before joining the MPC, Eleonora worked as Joint Research Fellow at the European Policy Centre and the Egmont Institute in Brussels. She gained professional experience at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford and Carnegie Europe in Brussels. She also carried out research on climate change governance and EU-Russia relations at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin and the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow.
In addition to her think-tanking experience, Eleonora consults for UN agencies, international organisations, NGOs, national authorities, and international research consortia on policy issues related to migration policies, development, and social inclusion.
Eleonora holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (2021) and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London.
Publications
- Solidarity: Three Takeaways for the Year Ahead Commentaries
- The EU Joint Communication on the Climate-Security Nexus One Year On European Policy Briefs
- How the EU could deliver on the Pact’s Predicaments through more Balanced External Cooperation External publications
- Can the EU achieve a more Coherent Policy on Climate Mobility? The Nexus Approach could help External publications
- A Pact: So What? Commentaries
- The Nexus Approach: Bringing together climate, human security, and demographic change in times of permacrisis External publications
- Meloni and the EU align on the Mediterranean pivot Commentaries
- Book: Refugee Protection and Solidarity Books
- The Migration Ticking Clock External publications
- Reconnecting emergency responses to long-term adaptation needs Commentaries
- Challenges and priorities of the EU’s response to the situation in Afghanistan European Policy Briefs