Professor Emeritus in International Planning Studies/Sustainable Urban Development at the Department of Urban Design and Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway After a career as architect and project manager also on the international arena, Skotte returned to academia to investigate how international NGOs and GOs contributed to the recovery of poor societies ravaged by war, resulting in a much q

Cecilie Andersson (Bergen, NO) received her Master in Architecture from Bergen School of Architecture, with exchange to Århus. She has worked as an architect at HLM Arkitektur in Bergen and at Helen & Hard in Stavanger, on various projects related to building, transformation and planning. In 2012 she defended her PhD in urban planning at NTNU on Migrant Positioning in transforming urban ambiences, exploring the situation in urban villages and the city of Guangzhou, China. She

Mr. Metin Çorabatır is an expert on asylum and migration issues. He is currently the President of the Research Centre on Asylum and Migration (IGAM), an Ankara based think-thank NGO established in June 2013. The three ongoing projects of IGAM are: 1) the establishment of a Turkish Refugee Council to empower the local NGOs in the relevant field; 2) to develop and implement a refugee integration tool in corporation with the Belgium based “Migration Policy Group”; 3) to host Gov