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Leila Simona is part of Vision since its start-up, being a senior researcher on criminality and immigration issues. She was appointed as a lecturer in European politics in the department of European studies of the University of Bath in the year 2001. From November 2000 until September 2001 she held the position of Associate Expert for the United Nations Regional Office for Drug control and Crime Prevention based in Cairo working on illegal migration from the Middle East and Northern Africa to EU countries. In the academic year 1999-2000 she taught "The political Economy of European Integration" at the European Institute of the London School of Economics where she had previously held a research and teaching fellowship for the academic year 1998-1999. Leila Simona got her PhD with distinction at the European University Institute of Florence in 1998 and is the author of "Betting for and against EMU" (Ashgate: 2000). Her research interests currently focus on globalisation and illegal migration with a special attention to Spanish and Italian public policy responses to illegal migration from the MENA area. She is also the author of: European Political Economy: political science perspectives, London: Ashgate (2004).
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