With:

Mark Goldring: director of Asylum Welcome, a local charity that works with asylum seekers and refugees who do make it to the U.K. . He was previously CEO of OXFAM, and in roles for UNDP, DFID and VSO has lived and worked in many of the countries from which refugees come or seek sanctuary.

Alexander Betts: serves as the University's Local and Global Engagement Officer, and Chair of the University's Sport Strategy Committee. His research focuses on refugees' access to socio-economic opportunities, and he has undertaken research across Africa and Europe. He has published 12 books, around 100 scholarly publications, and won several academic prizes, including from the International Studies Association and American Political Science Association for his scholarship, and the ESRC's Outstanding International Impact Prize. He has been named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world's top-100 global thinkers, by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, by Friends of Europe as a European Young Leader under-40, and by Thinkers50 on their radar list of emerging business influencers. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian, and his TED talks have been viewed by over 3 million people. He has previously served as the Director the Refugee Studies Centre, Associate Head of the Social Sciences Division, and is co-founder of the Oxford SDG Impact Lab and the Refugee-Led Research Hub in Nairobi. He was previously the World Masters and European Universities debating champion.

Loren Landau: Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford and Research Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration & Society. His interdisciplinary scholarship explores mobility, multi-scale governance, and the transformation of socio-political community across the global south. Publications include, Forging African Communities: Mobility, Integration, and Belonging (Palgrave); I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis (Wits Press); Contemporary Migration to South Africa (World Bank); The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid, and Transformation in Western Tanzania (Wits Press); and Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa (UN University Press/Wits Press). He has consulted with the European Union, the World Bank, UNDP, UNHCR, UNECA, the Cities Alliance, and others. As chair of the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (2004-2012) he served on the South African Immigration Advisory Board. He is now a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He holds an MSc in Development Studies (LSE) and a PhD in Political Science (Berkeley). Together with Jean Pierre Misago, he co-founded and co-directs the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab (MGL).

Emma Walker-Silverman: doctoral researcher affiliated with the Refugee Studies Centre. She is broadly interested in intergroup relations and the forces that shape them, and specifically why different people and communities respond so differently to hosting refugees. Her doctoral research uses qualitative and experimental methods to examine the influence of social media on attitudes towards Syrian refugees in Turkey. She holds an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Psychology from Stanford University, both with distinction. Before coming to Oxford, she worked as a Fulbright researcher and coordinator with local NGOs in Turkey. Alongside research, she is a warden at Lincoln College, plays ice hockey for the Oxford Blues and is an editor of the Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration.