


Executive Producers of the GREASE Films
Five members of the GREASE research consortium served as the films’ executive producers (referred to also as the “Scientific Board”). They were responsible for commissioning the films and supervising their production.

Anna Triandafyllidou
anna.triandafyllidou@eui.eu
The coordinator of the GREASE project, Professor Anna Triandafyllidou holds a Robert Schuman Chair at the Global Governance Programme of the European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) where she directs the Cultural Pluralism Research Area. She also teaches as Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies and Chair of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee, and member of the IMISCOE Board of Directors. Read More
Anna’s recent books include: Migration and Globalisation Handbook (E. Elgar, ed. 2018); The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Challenges, Asian Approaches (with T. Modood, ed. Edinburgh University Press, 2018); Multicultural Governance in a Mobile World (ed. Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Global Governance from Regional Perspectives (Oxford University Press, ed., 2017); The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies (Routledge, ed. 2016); High Skill Migration and Recession: Gendered Perspectives (with I. Isaakya, ed. Palgrave, 2015). She is the author of What is Europe? (with R. Gropas, Palgrave, 2015) and Migrant Smuggling. Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe (with T. Maroukis, 2015, Palgrave). Representing EUI as coordinating partner, Anna is responsible for leading and managing the project as a whole (essentially GREASE’s driving force and mastermind). Anna is devoting special attention to our work package on Mapping of State-Religion Relations and Religious Radicalisation Trends.

Tina Magazzini
tina.magazzini@eui.eu
Tina Magazzini is a Research Associate at the Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute working primarily on GREASE. Her research interests are in the fields of comparative politics, migration and integration policies, diversity management, identity and the relationship between majorities, minorities and states. She is interested in both applied and theoretical research in these areas and has conducted a wide range of research consultancies for international bodies as well as regular funded research. Read More
She carried out her PhD research within the Marie Sklodowska Curie project INTEGRIM – Integration and International Migration: pathways and integration policies and was awarded the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship in 2016 by the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research and the Social Impact Award in 2018 by the Marie Curie Alumni Association. Recent publications include articles for Migration Letters, Policy & Politics, International Migration and an edited volume for IMISCOE Springer. A short movie she directed has been used in an anti-xenophobia campaign by the MADE – Migration and Development Civil Society Network, and she has acted as an external expert to the Global Forum for Migration and Development in 2016 and 2017. Previously to joining the EUI she worked with a number of NGOs, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and UNESCO in the areas of social inclusion, Roma integration policy-making and minority rights in Portugal, the United States, Guatemala, Belgium, Hungary, Spain and Zimbabwe. Tina holds a BA in Political Science (University of Florence), a MA in International Relations (CCNY) and a PhD in Human Rights (University of Deusto). As a representative of the coordinating partner in the project, Tina will be deeply involved in GREASE’s research activities, particularly those pertaining to the work package on Mapping of State-Religion Relations and Religious Radicalisation Trends.

Tariq Modood
t.modood@bristol.ac.uk
Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 200 articles and chapters. He was awarded a MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. He served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the National Equality Panel, and the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. Read More
Tariq is co-coordinating the GREASE project together with Anna Triandafyllidou. Alongside her, H.A. Hellyer and Michele Grossman, he is also a member of the project’s steering committee. Tariq is responsible for leading two work packages, namely the development of the analytical framework and the regional dialogues. His website is tariqmodood.com

Thomas Sealy,
thomas.sealy@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Thomas Sealy is a Research Associate working on GREASE in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, where he is also a Senior Teaching Associate. His PhD research focussed on British converts to Islam and multiculturalism, where he was interested in issues of theorising religious identity and belonging and bringing this to bear on multiculturalism’s thinking around difference and recognition. Read More
He teaches units on contemporary identities, inequalities, religion and politics and political concepts. He has published articles on multiculturalism and the media representation of British converts to Islam. On the GREASE project he will be working on state-religion relations and governance of religious diversity, as well as the country profiles for western Europe.

Terry Martin
t.martin@spia-europa.de
Responsible for communications and dissemination in the GREASE project, Terry Martin is executive director of SPIA and oversees all of the agency’s activities. A veteran broadcaster and journalist (DW News, CNN International, EUROPE Magazine), Terry entered the field of European research communications in 2008 at the invitation of the European Commission. Since then he has been continuously involved in consultations with European researchers, administrators, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and journalists on how best to bridge the communications gap between research and policymaking. Read More
Terry has written scores of news items highlighting the policy relevance of EU-funded research in social sciences and humanities (SSH) and played a key role in formulating guidelines for SSH policy briefs in Framework Programme research projects. In 2010 Terry wrote the European Commission’s guidebook ‘Communicating Research for Evidence-based Policymaking’. Between 2010 and 2012 he co-designed and delivered a series of communication master-classes for EU-funded research projects. Terry has served on the advisory boards of multiple Framework Programme projects and contributed to science-policy interface efforts within the EC’s Environment DG. Terry is frequently in demand as an advisor, trainer, moderator and rapporteur.