Sergio Carrera
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Sergio Carrera

Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs unit

Sergio Carrera
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Sergio Carrera

Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs unit

Sergio Carrera is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs unit at CEPS.

Sergio is also Visiting Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) in the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy), Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po (France), and Honorary Professor at the School of Law in Queen Mary University of London (UK).

His main research interests are on EU justice and home affairs (JHA) law and Area of Freedom, Security and Justice policy, with particular focus on migration, asylum, citizenship and Schengen policies. His areas of expertise also cover EU criminal justice law and police cooperation, and their impact on data protection/privacy and the rights of the defence.

Ph.D. on immigration and citizenship, Maastricht University (The Netherlands); LL.M. in European, Comparative and International Law, University of Maastricht; Law Degree, Universidad de Salamanca