Engin Isin is Professor of Politics at The Open University, UK. He is Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and author and editor of fifteen books in the field, including 'Being Political' and 'Citizens Without Frontiers’. Engin is particularly interested in the history and practice of population exchange and the role of creative arts and design in recognizing the ingenuity of new modes of global citizenship.

Jasleen Kaur Jasleen Kaur is a Scottish-Indian artist based in London. Jasleen engages with the malleability of cultures and how social histories are embedded in materials and objects. Jasleen is a visiting lecturer at The Royal College of Art, exhibits worldwide and was awarded the Jerwood Makers Open in 2015. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Royal College of Art and the UK Crafts Council.

StartupAid launched in November 2015 as a way to catalyse a more impactful response to the refugee crisis.The initiative is led by of social entrepreneurs, Paula Schwarz and Ioanna Theodorou who met during a trip to Lesvos in October 2015 and a team of volunteers. StartupAid is an impact accelerator supporting existing projects and connecting humanitarian and creative entrepreneurs, designers and NGOs through the ‘Harbor’ Intranet – where users exchange knowledge and develop tools to solve problems that refugees, volunteers and NGOs face on a daily basis.

Paula Schwarz - StartupAid studied Investment Management in Stanford and at ALBA University in Greece. She mentored for the Venture Bus in East Africa and founded the first carpooling community in Kenya (Jambocar.co.ke). She is a trained Investment Manager and worked for the private fund of Philipp Schindler (Google Global Head of Operations) in the Middle East.

Joanna Theodorou - StartupAID Following her studies in Cultural Diplomacy at Warwick University, Ioanna co-founded the NGO ‘Reload Greece’ in 2012. Living in Greece since 2013, she remains involved in the startup environment and was project leader for the social entrepreneurship programme of the Municipality of Athens. Currently, she serves on the BIOS Athens Youth Board.

Ismail Einashe is a freelance journalist, researcher and associate editor at Warscapes. He writes for Prospect, Index on Censorship, African Arguments and Welt-Sichten, and has published in The Guardian, Internazionale and The Mail & Guardian. Ismail presented on BBC radio on Four Thought, The Cultural Frontline and From our own Correspondent'. Born in Somalia, Ismail lived in Ethiopia before arriving in Britain as a child refugee.

Shahed Saleem teaches at the University of Westminster School of Architecture, and is senior researcher on the Bartlett’s Survey of London project. Shahed’s The British Mosque is a social and architectural history and the first comprehensive account of Muslim architecture in Britain. Shahed’s work engages with processes of making community and religious spaces, negotiating discourses of planning, migration and visual cultures.

Yasmin Fedda is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films have focused on a range of themes from Edinburgh bakeries to Syrian monasteries. Her films have been BAFTA-nominated and screened at numerous international festivals. Films include Breadmakers (2007), A Tale of Two Syrias (2012), Queens of Syria (2014). Fedda has also made broadcast films for the BBC and Al Jazeera.

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