Claire Rimmer has over fifteen years’ experience working on issues of integration, migration and asylum, at city, national and European levels, as part of her work at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) as well as with different civil society and refugee community networks. Her experience includes policy analysis on migration and refugee issues, comparative research, intercultural training, policy briefs, and knowledge sharing on a wide variety of topics including integration, the Common European Asylum System, return and children in migration. She has extensive experience in supporting networks and capacity building from grass roots to European level. She has worked on integration projects at city level with refugee communities in London, Athens, Moscow, Odessa and Chisinau. Claire has also supported diaspora communities to develop their own European and transnational programmes including development projects for women and other vulnerable groups in Afghanistan.