Virginie Guiraudon (PhD, 1997, Harvard) is CNRS Director of Research at the Sciences Po Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics in Paris. For the last twenty years, she has studied the emergence of a EU immigration, asylum, external borders policy domain as well as EU antidiscrimination laws. She is the recipient of the 2013 Mattei Dogan prize in European Political Sociology. Virginie Guiraudon recently published “The 2015 refugee crisis was not a turning point: explaining policy inertia in EU border control” in European Political Science (July 2017). She sits on various scientific boards and is currently a member of the Standing Group on the European Union of the ECPR.