Our Instructors

Madis Vainomaa, LLM, is a lawyer and psychotherapist, with 20+ years of experience in human rights protection issues with the main focus on combating trafficking in human beings and addressing vulnerabilities in irregular and mixed migration, improving the institutional capacities and response mechanisms to address human trafficking, protection of the rights of refugees and IDPs, monitoring and investigating human rights issues.

Edgar Federzoni serves as Project Manager of ICMPD’s Anti-Trafficking Programme. In the last 11 years, he has implemented and led initiatives within ICMPD to combat human trafficking across various countries and regions. He has coordinated and facilitated the development and adoption of national and regional policies, which have been instrumental in enabling civil society, governmental institutions, and law enforcement agencies to detect and offer effective protection to victims of trafficking. Mr Federzoni has worked in the entire spectrum of the combat against trafficking, from conducting field research, devising legal instruments, and building the capacities of stakeholders to prevent, identify, investigate, and tackle trafficking cases in over 20 countries.

Ivanka Hainzl works as an Anti-Trafficking Specialist at ICMPD. For 11 years, she was part of the organisation’s Anti-Trafficking Programme. Currently, her professional focus is capacity-building projects targeting the national anti-trafficking stakeholders, as well as the development and implementation of various national anti-trafficking policy frameworks.

Prior to ICMPD, she served as Senior Expert to the Secretariat of the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, within the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria. She implemented anti-trafficking projects at CARE International Bulgaria and the NGO Animus Association Foundation/LaStrada Bulgaria.

Mrs Hainzl holds an MA in Clinical and Counselling Psychology and has extensive training and experience in providing psychological and social support to victims of violence, incl. THB victims.

Sanja Milenkovikj Bojadjieva works as a Junior Project Officer at ICMPD. For 6 years, she was part of the organisation’s Anti-Trafficking Programme. She has a decade long experience in migration related issues, including asylum, irregular migration, and trafficking in human beings. She is passionate about advancing the human rights, dignity, and security of migrants and victims of trafficking.

Prior to ICMPD, Sanja Milenkovikj Bojadjieva implemented projects related to human rights, asylum, and migration in the NGO Macedonian Young Lawyers Association (MYLA) in North Macedonia.

Mrs Milenkovikj Bojadjieva holds an MS in Mass Media and Politics and a BA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Bologna.  

Ronald Skeldon is an Honorary Professor at Maastricht University and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. He was trained at the Universities of Glasgow, Scotland (BSc Hons) and Toronto, Canada (MA; PhD). He joined the University of Sussex in 2000 and was a core member of the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalization and Poverty and, from June 2009 to March 2011, was seconded to the Department for International Development (DFID) in London as a Senior Research Fellow. He continued teaching at the University of Sussex until 2017, when he became Emeritus Professor. He joined Maastricht University in 2013 as Professor in Human Geography, becoming Honorary Professor in 2018. He has published widely on issues of migration and development, most recently, the Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development (2020) with Tanja Bastia of the University of Manchester, and a forthcoming Advanced Introduction to Migration Studies for Elgar is due out in 2021. He continues to act as a consultant for many international organizations. He lives in Nairn, Scotland.