Ioana Pelin-Raducu is a policy officer at the Schengen and External Borders Unit of the European Commission's Directorate for Migration and Home Affairs.

She previously worked at the Asylum Unit contributing the development and overseeing the implementation of the Common European Asylum System acquis and to the Secretariat-General of the European Commission dealing with the transparency policy.

She also holds a Phd in law from the University of Geneva on the judicial dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union on the protection of fundamental rights standards

Szabolcs Schmidt graduated from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences with a specialisation in external economic relations. Before joining permanently the European Commission services he accumulated professional and managerial experience both in the corporate and in the public sector with postings in Germany, Hungary and Poland where he got engaged at an early stage with the European reunification process and the preparations for the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. Within the European Commission services he worked in the areas of external and enlargement policies, cohesion policy and transport policy. Since 2017 he holds the position of Head of Unit for Non-discrimination and Roma coordination of the European Commission. In this function he is responsible for ensuring the appropriate implementation of the European Union's legislation in the area of equality and for its further development, as well as for promoting equality through instruments such as the Commission Recommendation on Standards for Equality Bodies, the Diversity Charters the EU List of Actions on LGBTI equality and the EU Strategic Framework on Roma Equality, Inclusion and Participation.  

Miriam Toplanska works in the European Commission, DG Employment and social affairs, in the Unit on disability and inclusion, in particularly dealing with the integration of migrants into the EU labour markets and society. Previously she worked as programme manager of the European Social Fond and Team leader in the delivery of the EU technical assistance to the countries of the Western Balkans and European Neighbourhood Policy.  As a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she actively contributed to the accession negotiations between Slovakia and the EU. She studied at the University of Economics, followed by studies in the Institute of International Relations and Law Approximation in Bratislava.