Gianluca Gatta, PhD, anthropologist, is co-founder of the Archive of migrant memories (AMM). He has taught in Italy and Japan, and researched on migration, body and power; places and sociability; memory, self-narration and migrant subjectivity.

Alessandro Triulzi, former Professor of Sub-Saharan African History and Director of PhD Programme in African Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, is president of AMM. He researched on twentieth-century Ethiopian history, colonial memory and postcolonial violence.

Marina Mazzoni has been Project manager for international NGOs in Western Balkans and Tanzania over the last 15 years. She has conducted needs assessments and capacity building programmes. She currently works as project manager and fund raiser for AMM.

Catherine Therrien is a Canadian anthropologist living in Morocco since 2001. She is Adjunct Professor at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI). Her research interests focus on identity, migration, mixedness, family and transnationalism.

Kenza Oumlil is an Associate Professor in Communication at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Oumlil holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. She has published widely on representation, gender, and media.

El Makhtar Rhannai, Payroll and Accounting Manager at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. He has been responsible of the financial management of various European funded projects mainly under the programmes Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+.

Rachid Daoudi is Project Officer at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. He is in charge of supporting the implementation of European funded projects mainly under the programmes Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+. He is also a PhD student at the USMBA, Fez, Morocco.

Jalal Al Husseini is an associate research fellow in political sociology at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and a freelance consultant for numerous United Nations agencies, including UNRWA. Based in Amman since 1997, he has specialized in forced migration and labour market issues. Holder of a PhD obtained at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), with a doctoral dissertation on the political dimensions of UNRWA’s mandate, he is the author of numerous published articles and reports, and the editor of several collective books including Palestinians between State and Diaspora: uncertainty times (2011) and Palestine in Networks (2020). He has recently consulted with various international organizations, including UNRWA on the status of ex-Gazans in Jordan; the status of the “Non-ID Palestinians” in Lebanon, and the living conditions of Palestine Refugees from Syria in Jordan and in Lebanon.

Solenn Al Majali is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, at the Telemme laboratory attached to Aix-Marseille University (France). She is also an assistant researcher at CNRS for ITHACA Program (Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region) at the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo) in Jordan. Her dissertation deals with the processes of exclusions and sociabilities among Yemeni and Somali refugee communities in a popular neighborhood of Amman. Her thesis focused on ethnic interactions and on racial issues, particularly among the mixed Yemeni-Somali groups in Amman.

Kamel Doraï is geographer and researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) currently based at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France). He was based at the Ifpo in Damascus (Syria), Amman (Jordan) and headed the Department of contemporary studies at Ifpo in Beirut (Lebanon). His work focuses mainly on asylum and refugees in the Middle East, with a focus on migration and transnational practices within the Palestinian diaspora. He is currently conducting research on Syrian and Palestinian refugees from Syria in Jordan and Lebanon as well as on the urbanization process of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. He develops comparative studies between refugees residing in and out of camps, as well as analysis of their migratory experience and spatial practices to map the relationships between refugee camps and their urban environment in the Middle East.

Falestin Naïli is a historian associated with the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman and with the University of Basel. She specializes in the social history of late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and Jordan and works on forced migration and oral history, in addition to local governance and politics.

Valentina Napolitano is a sociologist, researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), her researches deal with forced migrations, political violence and family transformations in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Jordan. After a Ph.D focusing on political commitments and mobilizations among Palestinian refugees in Syria, here current researches deals with the impact of the Syrian war on the transformation and reconfiguration of refugee families in Jordan. Among here last publications : « Donner sens et cohérence à la désertion en contexte de guerre : les émotions d’ex-militaires syriens », Critique internationale, vol. 91, no. 2, 2021, pp. 67-87. « Circulations transnationales et transformations de l’engagement : l’exemple des circulations palestiniennes dans l’espace syro-libanais (1960-2014), Revue internationale de politique comparée, vol. 25, n°1-2, 2018, p.105-128. « From Syria to Lebanon : Migratory and militant trajectories of three Palestinian women », Civil Society Review, Décembre 2016, n°2, pp. 28-46.

Rustam B. Rustamov has specialized in space instrumentation and remote sensing and GIS technology. He has graduated PhD at the Russian Physical-Technical Institute (S. Petersburg). The main projects where Rustam B. Rustamov nominated as manager were related to the Earth study by use of space technology advances.

Rovshan Karimov is a PhD in geography and occupies a position of principal investigator at IGAZ. He has been involved in projects or served as a focal point through working with UNDP, UNEP, GIZ, Erasmus+ and SCOPES.

Rovshan Abbasov is a PhD in Geography, and has an experience in working with floods, mudflows and disaster risk reduction, and social problems of mountain rural communities. Former visiting Fulbright scholar, he has served also as a consultant at many projects funded by UNDP, UNICEF, GIZ and others.

Natavan Jafarova is a PhD in geography and a GIS specialist. Her scientific works and activities under various projects have been devoted mainly to distribution of population, settlements and mapping in geographical studies.

Eugenia Bournova is a full professor of contemporary History at NKUA. Her research focuses on the social history of contemporary Athens.

Myrto Dimitropoulou is a historian specialising on the urban social history of Athens. She has also been PI of projects organising historical archives of enterprises and designing digital historical archives.

Stavros Spyrellis is researcher at the Greek National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) and associate at the Géographie-cités laboratory in France (CNRS).

Michaël Gasperoni is researcher in early modern History. He is particularly interested in migration and how societies deal with foreigners and minority groups. He works on Jewish ghettos, studied from a demographic, economic, social and legal perspective.

Cyril Grange is director of the Centre Roland Mousnier (Sorbonne Université/CNRS). He is a specialist in historical demography and Jewish family history. He is interested in the demographic behaviours of Jewish populations in the modern era.

Claudia Gatta holds a PhD in Roman history. Her research interests include epigraphy and prosopography, with a focus on economic and social practices. She is also interested in cultural diplomacy and heritage conservation.