Katharina Crepaz is a Senior Researcher at the Eurac Research Institute for Minority Rights. Her research and teaching focuses on the inclusion and participation of soci-etally marginalized groups, on the nexus between diversity, health and inequality, and most recently on post-pandemic resilience and well-being.
Fernand de Varennes has been the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues since 2017. He is renowned as one of the world’s leading experts on the international human rights of minorities and has authored over 200 publi-cations in more than 30 languages on the subject.
Emanuele Massetti is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of International Studies and in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. He studies political parties, ethno-territorial politics, multi- level institutional reforms and populism, primarily from a comparative perspective.
Eduardo Ruiz Vieytez is professor at University of Deusto (Bilbao). His fields of research are integration policies, national conflicts, minority rights and the relation between human rights and religious, linguistic and cultural diversity.

