Salvatore Petronella works as Policy and Public Affairs Lead at Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP) engaging with governments, industries and international institutions to promote safe and legal mobility programs for skilled workers in the trade and services sectors. He is a migration governance specialist within the context of the EU external dimension, with a special focus on labor mobility and smuggling of migrants.
He has previously coordinated the launch of the Migration Partnership Facility (MPF) at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) facilitating employment and training opportunities to foreign workers coming from North- and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as Eastern European and South Caucasus countries. At ICF International he led evaluation and impact assessment studies and contributed as senior expert to the European Migration Network (EMN). He has also been seconded to the European Commission (DG HOME) as national expert on integration policies and supported the works of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on smuggling of migrants and of EPIM on migration systems mapping.
In early 2024, he was selected by the EU Bubble Insider as one of the key people to follow on migration and human rights. He has also relevant experience in consulting EU and UN specialized agencies and national decentralized bodies on migration policies. Italian national, he holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Bari (Italy) and a specialization in EU Law and Policies on Asylum and Migration from the University of Brussels (Belgium). Salvatore is based in Stockholm (Sweden).
