Barbara Pilz joined the IDC as the Europe Programme Officer in August 2019. Prior to that she worked on the topics of migration policy research at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Berlin and mixed migration at the Danish Refugee Council in Amman. She began her career volunteering and working for several London-based humanitarian and human rights organisations such as the British Red Cross, Amnesty International UK, and the British & Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group. She holds an MA in Intercultural Conflict Management and is currently based in Berlin, Germany.