Bertrand Steiner
Research Assistant, MPI Europe
Bertrand Steiner is a Research Assistant at MPI Europe, focusing on areas including the European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum, refugee integration, irregular migration, and return and reintegration strategies.
Before joining MPI Europe, he worked at Open Access Now in Brussels, where he focused on EU policy and advocacy for digital rights. He also worked at the French national asylum court (Cour nationale du droit d'asile, CNDA) and as a photojournalist. He also conducted conflicts of interest research for the UK-based nongovernmental organization Asylos.
Mr. Steiner has a master of public international law (cum laude) from the University of Groningen, with a focus on humanitarian law, human-rights law, and refugee law. He also holds a bachelor of law and a bachelor of modern state theory (both with distinctions) from the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.