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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
