Mostafa Moonir Shawrav is a research innovation and policy expert with 15 years of experience in academia, industry and nonprofit sectors in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. He is working as the Executive Director of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) and a former Co-chair of the EU Science Diplomacy Alliance and a former Chair of the MCAA. He was an independent expert in the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Knowledge Valorisation and as the researcher mobility expert on the “Knowledge Ecosystem in the new ERA” study; and working at the Sustainable Careers for Researcher Empowerment (SECURE), and the CoARA-Boost project.