Short CV

CAREER

2007 – Jean Monnet Chair, Political Geography and Field Chair, Oxford Brookes University.
2007 – Field Chair, Department of Geography, Oxford Brookes University.
2005 – Reader, Political Geography, Oxford Brookes University.
2003 – UK Director, International Service Programme, IPSL (USA) and Roehampton University.
2003 – 05 Senior Lecturer, International and Development Studies, Roehampton University.
2002 – 04 Project Director, World Bank University of Tirana Twinning Project (IDA Credit No. 33270).
2004 – Director and Company Secretary, Gentium Ltd.
2002 – 03 Lecturer, Comparative Social Policy, Middlesex University.
2000 – 02 Research Fellow, Social Policy, Institute of Social Science Research, Middlesex University.
1999 – 00 Programme Officer, Balkans Initiative, US Institute of Peace, Washington, DC.
1998 – 99 Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon.
1998 Lecturer, Global Studies Program, California State University Monterey Bay, CA.
1997 – 99 Tutor and Research Associate, Department of Politics UC Santa Cruz.

CONSULTING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

Expertise includes: project management and design, stakeholder analysis, institutional analysis, budget
management, monitoring, evaluation and reporting; also managing staff, volunteers and interns.
Consultancy experience includes work on migration, poverty reduction, social service delivery, justice sector
and public administration reform; also advising on human rights in cases regarding extradition and
deportation cases initiated by HM Government.

Current and past clients include:

Albanian Ministry of Justice, 2002-04.
Albanian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, 2003-05.
Bindman and Partners, 2003.
Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1996.
British Council, 2001-05.
Council of Europe, Committee for the Prevention of Torture, 2006-07.
Hickman and Rose Solicitors , 2007.
Home Office 2002.
International Organisation for Migration, 2002.
Kaim Todner Solicitors, 2004, 2006.
Neumans LLP, 2009.
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 2003, 2004.
Plan International 2007-08.
Refugee Action 2002.
Russian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, 2002.
TNT Solicitors, 2004, 2005, 2006.
UK Cabinet Office and UK Department for International Development, 2001.
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 2008.
World Bank, 1991; 2002-05.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Experience includes drafting project proposals that have attracted over £1 million in contracts, including
one tender for the British Council which resulted in a World Bank contract worth US$1.6 million.
Management experience includes directing teams of consultants, interns and volunteers, commissioning studies, allocating funds, monitoring and evaluating projects in both the UK and overseas.

2008 - Designed and managed project involving a team of 10 researchers based in nine countries to
produce an academic monograph on citizenship for the Swiss and Norwegian Ministries of
Foreign Affairs and Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

2008 - Delivered consultancy services as part of a project that involved interviewing experts on
systemic Human Rights violations and evaluating the European Court of Human Rights pilot
judgment procedure for the Leverhulme Trust (with London Metropolitan University - Lead).

2008 - Founded and directed research network of academics, policy-makers, experts based in UN
agencies, international organizations, and human rights activists in over 20 countries to
establish an International Observatory in Statelessness (www.nationalityforall.org).

2007 Directed a team of four researchers to produce a global survey on minorities and policy
report on the denial and deprivation of citizenship in over 40 countries for the UN
Independent Expert on Minorities and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

2007 -08 Directed a team of six to develop a searchable archive and web-based resource on Universal
Birth Registration for Plan International. This entailed managing a team of assistants to
ensure 1600 + files could be indexed and archived in a web-friendly system.

2006 - 09 Designed project and directed seven researchers to produce a comparative study of civic
exclusion in Europe for the Rothschild Foundation Europe and Ford Foundation. This entailed
coordinating between experts, organizing workshops across Europe, and directing 100+
interviews in the UK, France, Estonia and Slovenia; resulting in journal articles and book.

2006 Participated in project on the prevention of torture in Albania, Georgia and Moldova for the
Council of Europe - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. This entailed working
with a team in the field, conducting interviews in Strasbourg and Tirana to produce a
research report and series of recommendations.

2004 - 06 Delivered consultancy services including project design, management, monitoring and
evaluation as part of a two year project for the World Bank and Albanian Ministry of Labour
and Social Affairs, IDA Credit No. 35130, on behalf of the British Council and Gentium Ltd.

2003 - 04 Delivered consultancy services including interviewing governmental bodies and NGOs and
other stakeholders as part of a Human Rights audit of Serbia and Montenegro for the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission to Serbia and Montenegro (with
London Metropolitan University – Lead).

2003 Developed a curriculum on refugee studies with the London office of UNHCR as part of a
project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and C-SAP.

2002 - 05 Directed a three year twinning project with Middlesex University and the University of
Tirana for the World Bank and Albanian Ministry of Justice (IDA Credit No. 33270). This
entailed contracting experts, allocating funds to ensure delivery of capacity building
activities in Tirana and summer university in UK; monitoring and evaluating entire project.

2002 Co-directed a research project on the professional capacity of Afghans in the United
Kingdom for the Home Office and International Organisation for Migration. This entailed
disseminating and evaluating surveys (2000) and conducting interviews (33) with
resulted in a research report, article in the World Today and an academic article.

MEDIA EXPERIENCE

Trained in public relations (print and oral communication) in Washington, D.C.; further experience
includes IT expertise (web, CMS, social media and blogs) and leading advocacy and public education
campaigns. A freelance commentator on political and social affairs and contributed
a series of articles in the Pulitzer Prize winning The Oregonian, in addition to the following:

Letters, Comments and Opinion Pieces 1994 - present

The Economist
The Financial Times
The Guardian
The International Herald Tribune
The New York Times
The Oregonian
San Francisco Chronicle
The San Jose Mercury News
The Times Higher Education Supplement
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
The World Today

Radio and Television Broadcasts

Al Jazeera
BBC World Service
Voice of America
Sunday, BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio Essex
SGR FM Radio Essex
KPFA Radio Berkeley
Voice of America
KPFK Radio Los Angeles
KQED Radio San Francisco

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books and monographs include:

Citizenship Matters: Nationality and Human Rights in Perspective (with Maureen Lynch), Edward
Elgar Publishing (2010); Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted: A Comparative Study of
Statelessness in The European Union (with Caroline Sawyer) (2010); Freedom of Movement,
Citizenship and Exclusion, Cornell University Press (2010); War and Change in the Balkans:
Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation, Cambridge University Press, 2006; International Cooperation
and the Limits of Educational Integration in the European Union, Stanford University (Doctoral
Dissertation) 1997.

Approximately 20 journal articles published in:

Citizenship Studies, Comparative Education Review, Contemporary European History, Forced Migration
Review, Human Rights Review, Journal of Human Rights, International Journal on Multicultural Societies,
International Studies Compendium, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of South East European
and Black Sea, Politics, Political Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, South European Politics and Society.

Presentations and other publications:

Participated in high level conferences and seminars organized by UN Agencies, Open Society Institute,
Harvard University, European University Institute, University of Oxford, LSE, European Council and
ECRE (keynote). Approximately 30 working papers and research reports published.

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