He is also director of the Center for study of conflicts, liberty and security (CCLS) and editor of the quarterly journal "Cultures & Conflits" published by l'Harmattan as well as founder and previous co-editor with Rob Walker of the ISA journal «International Political Sociology». He is currently the responsible of the KCL-WP on the professionals of security of the FP7 Source and he is the coordinator for Science Po of the ANR on surveillance after Snowden - UTIC.

His works focus on critical approaches to security in Europe and the relation between internal and external security, as well as on sociology of terrorism, antiterrorism, practices of surveillance.

Books

• Bigo Didier (2017) Michel Foucault and International Relations edited by Didier Bigo, Philippe Bonditti, Frédéric Gros, Palgrave
• Bigo, Didier. (2016) International Political Sociology: Rethinking the International through dynamics of Power. In Transversal Lines, edited by Tugba Basaran, Didier Bigo, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet and R. B. J. Walker: International Political Sociology series. Routledge.
• Bigo Didier (2016) Sécurité intérieure, sécurité extérieure: séparation ou continuum ? in Sébastien-Yves Laurent et Bertrand Warusfel (dir.), Transformations et réformes de la sécurité et du renseignement en Europe, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux - P.U.B., 2016, 316 pages

Journals

• Bigo Didier. (2016)."Sociology of Transnational Guilds." International Political Sociology 10, no. 4: 398-416.
• Bigo, Didier. (2016). Rethinking Security at the crossroad of International Relations and Criminology. British Journal of Criminology, 56 (6): 1068-1086
• Bigo Didier. (2016). "La politique européenne de contrôles aux frontières. Resituer les enjeux, changer l’imaginaire politique." Savoir-Agir Accueillir les migrants (36): Le Croquant Paris p.13-19.
• Z Bauman, D Bigo, P Esteves, E Guild, V Jabri, D Lyon… Repenser l'impact de la surveillance après l'affaire Snowden: sécurité nationale, droits de l'homme, démocratie, subjectivité et obéissance - Cultures & Conflits, 98- été 2015 p133-166. Translation and update of the collective article co-written by Zygmunt Bauman, Didier Bigo, Paulo Esteves, Elspeth Guild,Vivienne Jabri,David Lyon and R. B. J. Walker : After Snowden: Rethinking the Impact of Surveillance International Political Sociology Volume 8, Issue 2, pages 121–144, June 2014. Translated also as 2015. "Após Snowden: Repensando o Impacto da Vigilância." Revista ECO-Pós 18 (2):8-35.
• Bigo, Didier, and Laurent Bonelli. (2015) Critique De La Raison Criminologique. Cultures & Conflits 94-95-96 (triple issue): p 7-26.

He is a lawyer by training with 13 years of previous experience in an academic setting. He has written widely on the human rights of migrants, international labour migration, and various aspects of European law and policy relating to migration and asylum. In particular, he is the author of Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law: Their Protection in Countries of Employment (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997) and two publications for the Council of Europe The Legal Status of Migrants Admitted for Employment (2004), and Irregular Migrants: Access to Minimum Social Rights (2005).

Most recently, he was the lead author of Addressing governance challenges in a changing labour migration landscape , thethe report for the general discussion on labour migration at the 106th Session of the International Labour Conference in June 2017. He was also one of the principal authors of the Handbook for Parliamentarians on Migration, human rights and governance  (October 2015), a joint publication of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the ILO and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Prior to joining the ILO in September 2010, he was a Senior Migration Policy and Research Specialist at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva and Reader in Law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. While at IOM, he was co-editor-in-chief of World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy and co-authored two editions of the Handbook on Establishing Effective Labour Migration Policies in Countries of Origin and Destination  (2006, 2007), a joint publication of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), IOM and ILO.

He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa, a Master in Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Leicester.

He has served as Irish Ambassador in Russia, Germany and Austria. From 2001-2004 he was the Director General of Ireland’s development co-operation programme, today known as Irish Aid, which grew considerably under this leadership. He also served as Political Director from 2009-2013, a post which gave him responsibility for Ireland’s overall foreign policy.

Ambassador Donoghue was then appointed Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations in New York. In this role he helped to facilitate the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.

Ambassador Donoghue retired from the Irish foreign service in September 2017 but remains actively involved in pushing forward these issues, and contributes to the work of a number of think tanks and academic institutions.

She also advises the Council of Europe and has written two Issue Papers for the Commissioner for Human Rights, one on the right to leave a country the other on criminalization of migration.

In 2009 she wrote her monograph Security and Migration in the 21st Century Polity, Cambridge, 2009. In 2017 she co-edited with Stefanie Grant and Kees Groenendijk The Human Rights of Migrants in the 21st Century published with Routledge in the Focus series directed at the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

Prior to this, he was Head of Research at Erste Group, a retail bank. There his focus was on demographic and macroeconomic research. He also worked as Senior Fellow at the European think tank Bruegel in Brussels, at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in Washington DC/Brussels and at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI).

Until 2005 Rainer Münz had an academic career as researcher (Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1980-1986, 1990-1992 and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics of Finance, 2002-2004) as well as university professor (Humboldt University; visiting professor at the Universities of Bamberg, UC Berkeley, Frankfurt, HU Jerusalem, Klagenfurt, Vienna and Zurich; 1986-2013). He currently teaches at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and the Central European University (CEU, Budapest).

Rainer Münz has worked as a consultant for the European Council, the OECD and the World Bank. He served as an advisor to the Greek (2003), Dutch (2004) and Slovene (2008) EU presidencies. In 2000-01 he was a member of the German commission on immigration reform (Süssmuth commission). Between 2008 and 2010 he was Member of the high level “Reflection Group Horizon 2020-2030” of the European Union (so-called “EU Group of the Wise”).

Aside from Vienna University, Manfred Nowak was Professor of International Law and Human Rights at various prestigious universities, such as Utrecht, Lund, Stanford and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and has published more than 600 books and articles in this field, including various language editions of the CCPR-Commentary, a CAT-Commentary and an introduction to the International Human Rights Regime.

He has carried out various expert functions for the UN, the Council of Europe, the EU and other inter-governmental organizations. Most importantly, he served for many years in various functions as UN Expert on Enforced Disappearances (1993 to 2006), as one of eight international judges in the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo (1996 to 2003), and as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2004 to 2010).