Dr Mojib Rahman Atal is an Afghan–German migration expert with a PhD in Migration Studies from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His doctoral research examined institutional violence and everyday discrimination against Afghan refugees in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden from a comparative perspective. Dr Atal is a former local employee (Ortskraft) who served as a Political Advisor for the German Consulate General/ Embassy in Afghanistan before relocating to and resettling in Germany in October 2015. From 2020 to 2023, he taught migration politics at the Technical University of Nuremberg (TH N) and worked as a researcher at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) in Bonn, where he evaluated the German Federal Government’s civil engagement in Afghanistan.  

He is currently an Integration Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Group (MPG), an independent Brussels-based “think-and-do” tank, where he contributes to several EU- and non-EU-funded projects on migration and integration.