Policy Coordinator joined the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS), Cyprus

Josie Christodoulou joined the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) as a Project Officer 2004. She is currently the policy coordinator at MIGS as well as coordinator of various projects related to gender and migration, integration, and trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual and labour exploitation. She monitors migration and integration legislation as well as legislation and actions to combat trafficking in human beings on both national and EU levels and works to influence these from a gender perspective. Josie served as a member of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) of the Council of Europe from 2009- May 2011, and is currently a member of the Sub- committee on Trafficking in Women of the National Machinery for Women’s Rights of the Ministry and Public Order in Cyprus.

Her research interests include issues of gender and migration/integration; and trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual and labour exploitation.