Cláudia Pereira holds a PhD in anthropology with a post-doctorate in sociology. She is a Research Fellow and Professor at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (IUL), integrated at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). She has focused on linking research, teaching and public policies. ||| Claudia was the co-coordinator for the international Master degree Erasmus Mundus in Social Work with Family and Children. ||| Pereira is the executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory (OEm) Portugal, which carries out statistical research on the Portuguese in all countries. Among other activities, the OEm team is responsible for the Yearly Statistical Report on Portuguese Emigration produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for presentation to the Assembly of the Republic. ||| Cláudia carried out ethnographic research in India, among Catholic Goans and Hindus, and in England, among Portuguese nurses in London. ||| She is an expert on migration on capacity-building projects for governments of countries outside the European Union, such as Jordan and Togo, through the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), European Commission (EC). She is an evaluator of European applications (COST and Marie Curie). ||| She participates in research-action, migration and humanitarian action projects, with international and national funding. She coordinated the one on Nepalese immigration, networks and labour migration. ||| She was the State Secretary for Integration and Migration, at the 22nd Constitutional Government. In this position, with her team and in cooperation with other governmental areas and public institutes, she removed obstacles in the Portuguese language learning courses by creating the Ordinance for the courses of Portuguese Host Language. For the first time, foreigners and asylum seekers awaiting the documentation were able to learn Portuguese. Together with her team, she coordinated the task force for the first humanitarian emergency hosting in the country of people from Afghanistan and later from Ukraine. ||| Claudia assumes coordination roles that relate to research, lecturing and public policy. She is the President of the IPPS-Iscte, Social Public Policy Institute. Cláudia co-coordinates the Thematic Line of CIES, "Migration, Mobility and Ethnicity", and is a member of the executive committee and co-coordinator of the Thematic Line "Global Governance" of the Associated Laboratory, SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy.