Marcello Carammia is a Senior Lecturer in European politics at the Institute for European Studies of the University of Malta. His theoretical interest lies on comparative politics and agenda-setting processes, and he has a substantive interest in political institutions, EU integration, and the politics of migration. He is a principal investigator of the Italian Policy Agendas team and a member of the EU team. He has published on such journals as European Union Politics, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Policy Studies Journal, and South European Society and Politics.

Marcello is currently on leave from University, serving as a Senior Researcher at the European Asylum Support Office, the EU agency for asylum-seeker, where he is in charge of the agency’s Research Programme on the push-pull factors of migration.