Natascha Zaun is Associate Professor in Migration Studies at the European Institute at the London School of Economics. She specialises in EU policymaking with a special focus on migration and asylum. Pior to coming to the LSE, Natascha was a Junior Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She is an author of EU Asylum Policies: The Power of Strong Regulating States (Palgrave) and has furthermore published in outlets such as the Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.