Prof Monique Ebell National Institute of Economic and Social Research Monique Ebell (Ph.D. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2000) is a Research Fellow at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research and is affiliated with the Centre for Macroeconomics. She is a macroeconomist whose current work focuses on the economics of Scottish independence, the stability of currency arrangements, the macroeconomic impact of financial regulation, and lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Monique was previously affiliated with the [...]

Prof Panos Koutrakos European Law, City Law School Panos Koutrakos is Professor of European Law at City Law School.  He previous appointments were at the Universities of Bristol, Durham, and Birmingham. He has held visiting posts the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney, New South Wales, Iowa, Michigan, and Antwerp. He has written widely in EU law generally and EU external relations in particular: he is the author of, amongst others, The EU Common Security and Defence Policy (Oxford University Press, 2013) and EU International Relations Law (Hart [...]

Prof Trevor Taylor Professorial Research Fellow, Defence, Industries and Society, RUSI Trevor Taylor is Professorial Research Fellow in Defence Management at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall, London, where he co-directs up a research programme in Defence, Industries and Society, and he is a member of the Acquisition Focus group which publishes regularly in RUSI Defence Systems and the RUSI Journal. In addition, he is the Professor Emeritus at Cranfield University, where he still teaches, and where [...]

Dr Franck Düvell COMPAS/University of Oxford, UK Franck Düvell, PhD, social scientist; since 2006, he is a Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. Previously, he was contract senior researcher at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) (2009-12), lecturer in sociology, political science and Geography at the University of Bremen, Germany (2004-8), Jean Monnet Fellow at Robert-Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Florence) (2003-4) and research [...]

Aydin Mehmet Ali International Education Consultant, Author and Trainer Aydin Mehmet Ali is an international education consultant, author and trainer and lives in London. She specialises in multiculturalism, bilingualism and equalities work with the Turkish Speaking Communities (TSCs), women, and young people. As a well-known peace campaigner she uses the arts in conflict resolution work amongst Cypriot communities. Until recently she was advisor to the London Mayor and Chair of Hackney Action for Racial Equality. She has [...]

Prof Philip Booth Institute of Economic Affairs - Cass Business School, City University Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School, City University. He has written extensively on regulation, social insurance and Catholic social teaching. He is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and of the Royal Statistical Society and deputy editor of Economic Affairs. He has also advised the Bank of [...]

Prof Malcolm Chalmers Research Director, RUSI Since leaving the Foreign Office in 2007, Professor Chalmers has been based at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), where he is conducting research on UK security policy.  Malcolm Chalmers joined the Department part-time as Professor of Defence and Foreign Policy in October 2008. In November 2008, he gave oral evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee enquiry into non-proliferation. Areas of expertise UK [...]

Damla Aras King's College London Damla Aras is working towards her PhD at King's College London where she also gives lectures on Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East. Previously, she worked as a researcher in Centre for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) in Ankara, Turkey. She regularly contributes to Turkish Daily News on Middle Eastern affairs and also works as a free-lance political risk analyst on Turkey.

Dr Zeynep Kaya Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Dr Zeynep Kaya is a Fellow at the London School of Economics. She completed her PhD in International Relations at LSE on the interaction between international norms and ethnicist conceptions of territorial identity with a focus on the Kurdish case. She is currently working on her book titled The Idea of Kurdistan: International Norms and Nationalism for the University of Pennsylvania Press. Dr Kaya is also [...]

Prof Tariq Modood Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, Bristol University, UK I am the founding Director of the University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. I have held over 40 grants and consultancies (UK, European and US), have over 30 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 150 articles or chapters in political philosophy, sociology and public policy. I am the co-founding editor of the international journal, Ethnicities. My recent publications include Multicultural [...]

Dr Helen Hintjens International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam From the Great Lakes and Rwanda in particular, to asylum and refugee rights in the EU (UK, Netherlands, France). Central to my interests are how human rights protection and social justice issues relate to post-colonial relations. How do social movement approaches, with a focus on networks, manage to secure public accountability and how do more participatory approaches relate to broader democratic approaches? My interest in [...]

Prof Matt Uttley Academic Director of the King’s Policy Institute, King's College London Professor Uttley is Academic Director of the King’s Policy Institute at King’s College London and the Academic Advisor to the Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies. He has over 15 years of experience in United Kingdom professional military education. He was previously the Head of the King’s Defence Studies Department and Dean of Academic Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff [...]

Prof Sara L Friedman Associate Professor in the departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University Sara L. Friedman is an Associate Professor in the departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University.  Her work examines the connections between national politics and intimate life, with particular attention to the place of state power and citizenship in gender identities and intimate relationships.  She is the author of Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern [...]

Prof Ivor Gaber Professor of Political Journalism, City University London & Professor of Media and Politics, University of Bedfordshire Ivor Gaber is Professor of Political Journalism at City University London and Professor of Media and Politics at the University of Bedfordshire.  He represents the UK at UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communications. Prior to Beds he was a journalist at the BBC, ITN, Channel Four and Sky News and is now an Independent Editorial Advisor [...]

Prof Kemal Kirisci The Brooking Institution Kemal Kirişci is the TÜSİAD senior fellow and director of the Center on the United States and Europe's Turkey Project at Brookings, with an expertise in Turkish foreign policy and migration studies. Before joining Brookings, Kirişci was a professor of international relations and held the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. His areas of research interest include EU-Turkish relations, Turkish foreign [...]

Baroness Meral Hussein-Ece OBE Liberal Democrat Peer, House of Lords Born in London to Turkish-Cypriot parents, Baroness Meral Hussein-Ece was elected to Hackney Council as a Labour Party councillor for the Clissold ward in 1994 and became deputy leader in 1995 and 1996. She was the first woman from a Turkish/Cypriot background elected to public office in the UK. She then joined the Liberal Democrats and she was re-elected to Hackney Borough Council in Dalston ward in [...]

Alp Mehmet MVO Former British Diplomat / Vice-Chairman, Migration Watch UK Born in Cyprus, came to London in 1956.  English was his third language, having spoken Turkish and Greek first. Alp Mehmet is the vice-chairman of Migration Watch UK. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in mid-September 2008 after 29 years in the Service, which followed 9 years as an immigration officer in the Home Office.  While with the FCO, he served in Nigeria, Romania, Iceland (twice) and Germany. He was the first, [...]

Bill Park Senior Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies, King's College London Bill Park is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department. He was formerly Principal Lecturer at the JSCSC, Bracknell, and at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. From 1981 to 1991 he was Visiting Lecturer (part-time) at City University, London, and from 1975 to 1978, Lecturer in International Politics, Liverpool Polytechnic.

Emma Edhem Barrister, Carmelite Chambers Emma is a highly experienced advocate and BSc (Hons.) in Psychology specialising in a wide range of fields. She has been instructed on mediations and negotiations for a number of years and became an Accredited Mediator following facilitative mediator training with the London School of Mediation in 2011. Emma is happy to accept instructions to mediate across a wide range of matters and not just those in which she practices. Her broad [...]

Dervish Konuralp Paralympic Swimmer Konuralp was born in Hackney to a Turkish Cypriot father and an English mother. At the age of nine, Dervis was diagnosed with an eye condition called Macular Dystrophy Stratgarts, which meant that he was losing the use of his central vision in both eyes. After learning of his visual impairment, Konuralp began to learn how to swim with his primary school. Dervis would go on to compete for Hackney in the London [...]

Prof Robert Hazell CBE Constitution Unit, University College London Robert Hazell was a late comer to academe, coming to UCL in 1995 at the age of 45. After degrees from Oxford in PPE and Law, he started his career as a barrister from 1973-75. He then joined the Home Office, and was a policy making civil servant from 1975 to 1989, working in immigration, police, prisons, broadcasting, race relations, drugs and criminal justice policy. He left Whitehall [...]

Dr Peter Kenway Director of the New Policy Institute Peter has been director of the New Policy Institute since its foundation in 1996, leading its work aimed at promoting public awareness and understanding of a wide range of subjects connected with poverty and disadvantage. He has led its work on poverty, notably the annual Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which has become established as the independent document of record on the [...]

Prof Izzet Kale Department of Electronic Systems, University of Westminster Professor Izzet Kale, currently Professor of Applied DSP and VLSI Systems at the University of Westminster, Department of Electronic Systems, and Founder/Director of the Applied DSP and VLSI Research Group (ADVRG). He has over 25 years experience in the design and implementation of efficient real-time system solutions for the telecommunications and biomedical industries with a significant effort currently in  multi-standard, reduced-complexity, enhanced performance GNSS receivers. Prof. Kale [...]

Evelyne Rugg Director of Higher Education Policy, University of Westminster Evelyne Rugg Director of Higher Education Policy, and Chair, Westminster Group of Associate Colleges, University of Westminster provided an HE institution perspective on using data to inform strategic planning. Evelyne outlined how data can be used in a variety of ways to inform planning as well as some of the key challenges and highlighted that a great deal of data obtained by individual HEIs is very similar. [...]

Adam Hug Policy Director, Foreign Policy Centre Adam Hug joined the Foreign Policy Centre as Policy Director in June 2008. He oversees the FPC's work on the EU, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. His personal research focus is on the promotion of human rights, political and institutional reform in the Caucasus & Central Asia, Turkey, Israel/Palestine and Iran. He also explores both the role of the EU in promoting reform in these areas and [...]