Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan
Associate Director, International Program
Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan is Associate Director of MPI’s International Program, where she is responsible for development and positioning of new initiatives, oversight of research publications, and the overall strategic direction of MPI’s international development, climate, and global governance work. She is also a Nonresident Fellow with MPI Europe. Her areas of expertise include social cohesion and identity, public opinion and narratives, and the global governance of migration.
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Ms. Banulescu-Bogdan has represented MPI at international events and processes such as the Global Forum on Migration and Development, the International Migration Review Forum, the Group of Friends of the Quito Process, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s working group on migration communication (NETCOM). She regularly advises governments, international organizations, and multilateral development banks on combating xenophobia and designing effective communications strategies around migration, including through direct trainings for policymakers on how to target their development investments.
Since joining MPI in 2008, Ms. Banulescu-Bogdan has also worked closely with MPI’s flagship international initiative, the Transatlantic Council on Migration, through which she has helped advise stakeholders on various aspects of migration management and authored countless private policy memos for governments in Europe, North America, and beyond. Prior to joining MPI, she worked at the Brookings Institution, helping to develop public policy seminars for senior government officials in the Institution’s executive education program.
Ms. Banulescu-Bogdan obtained her master’s in nationalism studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where she wrote about the political mobilization of Roma in Romania. She received a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. In her personal time, she manages an informal network of community volunteers supporting newly arrived refugees in Washington, DC and Maryland.
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Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan and researcher Justin Gest discuss the confluence of polarization, nationalism, and immigration, as well as how increasingly diverse societies come up with a new definition of "we".
Organized on the margins of the first International Migration Review Forum, this official side event looks at effective practices and programs to build socially cohesive and inclusive societies—including lessons from post-conflict settings on how to build intergroup trust. Discussants focus on successful development interventions and offer examples of why some promising ideas may have fallen short in practice.
Experts consider what is known about public opinion and narratives on refugees, looking at the Ukrainian and Syrian crises, and how post-crisis solidarity can be harnessed towards sustainable protection.
- Welcoming Remarks
- Sessionn1- The COVID-19 Crisis:
- Breakout-Narratives & Social Cohesion
- Session 2- COVID 19 Recovery
- Breakout-Migrant Inclusion in Rural Communities
- Breakout-Social Innovation Ecosystem
- Breakout-Digital Equity & Refugee Inclusion
- Session 3- Innovation Within Government. Rethinking and Modernizing Integration Policy
This virtual conference explores how the diverse landscape of partnerships, social enterprises, participatory models, and community-led initiatives spearheading social innovation for inclusion has fared during COVID-19. It also focuses on how this ecosystem can emerge strengthened from the pandemic, and be a vital force in addressing new humanitarian challenges.
This MPI Europe webinar reflects on the implications of this current moment for European economies and societies and the role of immigration and immigrant integration policy, and highlight research from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre on the fiscal and demographic impacts of migration.
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Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan and researcher Justin Gest discuss the confluence of polarization, nationalism, and immigration, as well as how increasingly diverse societies come up with a new definition of "we".
This virtual conference explores how the diverse landscape of partnerships, social enterprises, participatory models, and community-led initiatives spearheading social innovation for inclusion has fared during COVID-19. It also focuses on how this ecosystem can emerge strengthened from the pandemic, and be a vital force in addressing new humanitarian challenges.
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