Alexa is CEO at SolidariTee, a charity which unites students and young people in support of the rights of forcibly displaced people, and works with local partner NGOs to provide legal aid and mental health support to refugees in Greece. She is also finance officer at the Disasters Emergency Committee, a UK charity who have raised more than £390m as part of their Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Alexa holds degrees in veterinary medicine, and in psychology, neuroscience and behaviour from the University of Cambridge, and is passionate about monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), as well as organisational dynamics and trauma psychology.

Annie Campbell Viswanathan is the Executive Director of Bail for Immigration Detainees which she joined in January 2021.  As a Law Society Accredited Supervising Immigration caseworker, Annie has worked at several migrant rights charities including Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ), Asylum Aid, Camden Community Law Centre, and with North Kensington Law Centre, also as their Director. In addition, Annie works part-time at the University of Westminster supervising their immigration legal clinic and teaches Asylum and Human Rights Law on their LPC course.

David qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and has had a varied career including time spent in Budapest, Hungary and in blue chip multinational groups. He now provides financial reporting and other technical accounting-related services, mainly to multinational listed companies.

Louisa is a medical and public health doctor and a senior international and domestic humanitarian manager. She has over thirteen years of experience in delivering humanitarian aid at strategic, technical, and operational levels, 19 years of experience as an internal medicine doctor in the National Health Service, and 11 years of experience within UK public health. Louisa has a breadth of experience in the not-for-profit sector in the UK and globally, working at senior levels for two of the world’s largest International Non-Government Organisations and have also held positions with the UK government and with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR). Much of her work has been focused on the provision of public health care to refugees, internally displaced people, people of concern, and people on the move and this has included setting up Mediterranean Search and Rescue programs, programs during the European refugee response, and programs across the Middle East and sub- Saharan Africa.

Hannah Wickes is Chief Marketing Officer at Ecosia, one of Europe’s largest social businesses and Germany’s first B-Corp. She has helped grow the tree-planting search engine to twenty million users across 180 countries, funding the restoration of more than 165 million trees. In 2022 she supported the creation of a Ukrainian school in the Ecosia office. A former journalist and producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hannah is passionate about intercultural communication and the power of storytelling to scale positive impact, and while at the ABC she worked on campaigns for the Australian Red Cross and UNHCR. Hannah has degrees in both journalism and business, and studied leadership coaching strategies at Harvard in 2022. Currently she sits on the board of Treecard, advises Europe’s largest climate tech focused VC firm, and supports Leaders for Climate Action as a mastermind facilitator.

Jun Pang is a Policy and Campaigns Officer at Liberty, where she leads its campaigns to save the Human Rights Act and defend the right to protest, as well as its work on migrants’ rights, privacy, and free expression. She is also a trade union representative. Jun organises with Remember and Resist, a grassroots project aiming to expand abolitionist thinking in East and Southeast Asian communities in the UK, and has volunteered with SOAS Detainee Support and Praxis Community Projects. Originally from Hong Kong, she previously worked with refugee NGOs in her hometown, and also participated in the pro-democracy movement. She holds a BA in Human, Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, and has also completed the GDL and LPC.

Minoo Jalali was a member of the Iranian Bar Association and practising lawyer. She was also an executive member of the largest Iranian women organisation formed in the aftermath of the Revolution in 1979. She campaigned against the violation of human, and specially, women’s rights. As a result, she was unlawfully barred from practice and had to leave Iran in 1983. In Britain she first worked with the Citizen Rights Office in Edinburgh. She together with other women activists helped to set up the first Asian women refuge in Edinburgh. In 1987, she joined Avon and Bristol Law Centre in Bristol where she helped in setting up its immigration team, representing clients and campaigning on asylum and immigration rights issues. She was a founding member of the Refugee Women’s Legal Group which was formed in 1996. Its aim was development of a gendered perspective on refugee law and practice. Minoo was on board of trustees of Refugee Action for the period 1994 to 2016. She has been a trustee of JCWI since 2008. In 2013 she was elected as its Chair and continued to act in this capacity until March 2020.

Rebecca Baron is a passionate and strategic campaigner with more than a decade of activism experience across multiple issues including migrant and refugee justice, climate justice, LGBTQ rights and global inequality. Rebecca is currently the Director of the Advocacy cluster at social change strategy firm Purpose Union. She specialises in strategy, movement theory and narrative framing. She started her career in the charity sector, leading engagement and campaigning for NGOs including Christian Aid and Refugee Action. Most recently Rebecca led the activism work for Ben & Jerry’s across Europe, building partnerships and systemic change campaigns in the refugee and migration sectors. Rebecca was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford with a degree in Human Sciences and a Masters in Anthropology. She also holds a Masters degree in Campaigning and Social Change from the University of Westminster.

Shveta Shah has around 20 years’ experience in global human rights and humanitarian sectors drawing on experience covering advocacy, policy and learning, programming and innovation, humanitarian field work, governance and management roles. She is currently Program Director of the Bertha Justice Initiative at the Bertha Foundation, where she works with an international network of human rights lawyers, activists, investigative journalists and storytellers. She was previously Director of Strategic Operations at the Start Network and prior to that in various roles at Oxfam, Save the Children International, Amnesty International, Red Kite Learning, ActionAid International and Operation Black Vote and Charter88. Shveta has worked in over 30 countries in every region often working in complex dynamic environments in collaborative initiatives. She has previously served as a Trustee of Cambridge House and was a member of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) Learning Advisory Board. As a keen runner, she regularly runs and volunteers at parkrun.

Simon Israel is a retired experienced broadcast journalist who has spent more than 20 years as a correspondent for Channel 4 News. In that time he’s won 9 awards. His career has involved coverage of the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian war and the assassination of Rajiv Ghandi. He led the home affairs team at C4N which specialised in reporting on UK immigration issues from rocketing asylum applications and the wrongful convictions of those jailed for entering with false documents, to the consequences of the ‘hostile environment’, and to the more recent Windrush scandal. He also spent many months in Africa working for an NGO during the first years of the Somalian civil war and the conflict in Southern Sudan. He is a member of a Commission on Political Power and a patron of Restorative Justice for All (RJ4ALL).