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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
