gregory maniatis served since 2006 a senior adviser to peter southerland the u.n. special representative for migration. he's also a senior adviser at the migration policy institute in washington and a codirector of columbia universities global policy initiative. over the past 15 years mr. maniatis has worked closely with the european commission state government european parliament and international organizations and civil society groups on all aspects of migration policy. he will comment on the european union, greece, russia migration and other topics and has been in many publications including "the new york times," the "washington post," "the wall street journal" and "new york magazine." earlier in his career gregory maniatis was a policy advisers to several governments and was a founder and publisher of odyssey magazine. he is a graduate of princeton university and is a member of the council on foreign relations. i will also introduce our discussants who is director of the ucla center for near eastern studies and professor laure murat where she teaches in the law