Alex Lazarowicz is Junior Policy Analyst in the European Migration and Diversity Programme at the EPC. He works closely on freedom of movement and legal migration policy, as well as the external dimension of migration. He also follows integration policy, especially through the Concordia Discors project the EPC was part of.

Previously he gained valuable experience on migration, and other JHA issues, while working at the Polish Permanent Representation to the EU in 2011, for the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and a 6-month preparatory period before. There, he worked mainly on preparations for the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum, as well as external cooperation in the JHA field. He was also in charge of the EU-LAC and ACP-EU migration dialogues.

Alex has previous experience at both the European Parliament and European Commission, where he worked in DG Enlargement. His time at the European Parliament was part of his BA in Polish and East European Studies at University College of London (University of London). He then completed an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS (University of London), focusing his dissertation on ‘interregionalism’ between the EU and Latin America.