Iranian specialist and member of Govt advisory groups.
Experts on countries of origin by surname
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Professor of Politics and Women's Studies at the University of York also the Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at the Faculte Internationale de Droit Compare at Strasbourg.
Iran
Fellow, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, specialising in Malaw, Zimbabwe and Zambia
Fellow, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh: Previously, Lecturer, University of St Andrews, Department of Anthropology (Regional African Ethnography)
Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Expertise on religion and politics in a number of African, Asian and Latin American countries - and in a number of languages. Current research includes China (Tibet), Chile, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Malawi and Zimbabwe; Libya and Syria
Chair in Religion and Politics & Director, Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP), University of St. Andrews
Brazil, Burundi, China, Colombia, Cote d`Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Expert on South Somalia (Bajuni islands and inland settlements) and an expert witness on the Somali Bajuni, has given oral evidence in Tribunal cases.
Expert witness normally engaged by solicitors
Somalia
Expertise in human rights conditions and Kurdish political and cultural activities in Syria, state corruption and social structures in Syria. Document verifications also provided.
Syria
Expert on all aspects of Colombia. Reports are prepared in Spanish, but has experience working with UK lawyers and the UK courts. Note that Dr Alan George of the University of Oxford is the
initial point of contact.
Reseach Associate, Processes of Peace Programme (with reference to Colombia), Escuela de Cultura de Paz, Universidad Autómona de Barcelona, Spain
Colombia
Vast experience of civil and criminal expert reports in addition to reports for immigration proceedings: frequently involved in cases where the internal dynamics of unfamiliar family structures are the central source of contention and/or confusion
Centre for Applied South Asian Studies
Pakistan
Anthropologist specialising in Hindu and Muslim south asians, esp religious persecution, including Ahmadis
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of Business and Social Sciences,Roehampton University
India, Pakistan
Broad and detailed expertise across most of Africa and also some of the Middle East; Also Ukraine and some aspects of CIS; expertise in many areas including social and economic aspects of
HIV/AIDS and marriage customs and social life in Arab Sudan.
Professorial Research Fellow at the Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
Belarus, Congo (Republic of), Cote d`Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Ukraine, Zimbabwe
Lawyer qualified in Turkey with expertise in the country in particular in relation to human rights.
LAWYER
Turkey
Freelance Horn of Africa advisor/consultant, has produced over 100 country reports (on Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, The Sudan) for various organisations and legal firms.
Freelance Horn of Africa Countries Advisor / Consultant
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
Professor of International Studies at University of Leeds with extensive experience in providing country expert reports for immigration lawyers representing North Korean clients, and detailed
knowledge of South Korean policies on persons of North Korean origin.
Professor of International Studies, University of Leeds; Visiting Professor at Yonsei University, Seoul 2005.
Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea
Barrister and academic, with vast research, publishing and advisory experience across Russian and CIS affairs; fluent in Russian
Barrister, Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London; formerly Prof. in Human Rights and International Law, University of North London;previously, Reader in Law, Director of the Pan-European Institute, University of Essex
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Expert on trafficking of migrants for domestic servitude in the UK - has provided 30 expert witness reports and has given oral evidence in Tribunal cases.
Expert witness: domestic servitude cases UK. Trainee Psychotherapist
Non Country Specific
Expertise in the social history of Liberia and other matters.
Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute, London
Liberia
Multi-lingual specialist in Venezuela and Colombia, with particular interest in foreign involvement in internal conflicts, the relations between military and paramilitary forces, and between
guerrilla groups, civilians and the state.
Lecturer, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol
Colombia, Venezuela
Academic expertise in Rwandan social and political matters including issues of revenge killings, internal relocation, ongoing vulnerability and trafficking, availability of medical care. Over a
decade of experience of providing evidence in court of law.
Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Rwanda
Expertise across the Former Soviet States (excluding Prebaltics) and extensive experience (over 770 since 2001) of expert reports and oral evidence - instructed by over 60 firms of solicitors and NGOs. A list is available on request.
Senior Associate Member St Antony’s College Oxford 1987- ; Hon Member Russian Academy of Sciences, Daghestan Scientific Centre 1990 -
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Russia (Chechnya), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Expert on the politics, refugees, human rights, culture and society (including women’s issues, caste and ethnicity) of Pakistan, China, Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Sudan and experienced in writing expert reports in asylum cases.
Anthropologist, independent consultant (formerly of SOAS, University of London)
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sudan
Visiting Professor in the Committee on Geographical Studies/Associate Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago; and Visiting Senior Lecturer, Geography Department, King's College, University of London
China
Broad expertise on ethnic groups across the countries listed and experience of written and oral expert evidence. Fluent in French and Italian
Solicitor, and Officer of the International Board, Federation Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Palestinian Authority
Iran specialist, academic and publishing, with vast experience of expert reports
Senior Associate Member, St Antony’s College, Oxford (1983–); Independent consultant, Iranian Affairs, Middle East books (1999– ) See also above.
Iran
Experienced expert across the Commonwealth of Independent States, incl esp Russia, Ukraine,Uzbekistan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan & Kazakhstan - and particularly in relation to Prisoners, Sexual
minorities, Stateless people, Minority religions & the risk of torture and/or death penalties.
Independent Consultant; Formerly researcher on the USSR for Amnesty International (1978-1990) and Programme Counsellor on human rights in Russia and Ukraine for Council of Europe (1996-2001)
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Areas of expertise
- Authentication of official and non-official documents
- Country profiles, in particular the Arab states, Kurdistan, Turkey and Afghanistan
- Specific ethno-religious groups and faiths
- Political, social and cultural groups
- Tribal issues: tribes, feuds, structures
- Extremist and violent groups, including religious groups
- Human rights: law, debates and violations
- Women issues: e.g. honour crimes
- Human trafficking
- Economy and finance: oil, private and government sectors
- Disadvantaged groups e.g. children, minorities, mentally ill, disabled, terminally ill
- Different sects and faiths of Islam: Shiia, Sunni, Wahabism and others
- Availability of medical services
- State structure, military and security services
- Drug dealing and trafficking
- Integration and multiculturalism
- Extremism and related issues
- Authentication of official and non-official documents
- Country profiles, in particular the Arab states, Kurdistan, Turkey and Afghanistan
- Specific ethno-religious groups and faiths
- Political, social and cultural groups
- Tribal issues: tribes, feuds, structures
- Extremist and violent groups, including religious groups
- Human rights: law, debates and violations
- Women issues: e.g. honour crimes
- Human trafficking
- Economy and finance: oil, private and government sectors
- Disadvantaged groups e.g. children, minorities, mentally ill, disabled, terminally ill
- Different sects and faiths of Islam: Shiia, Sunni, Wahabism and others
- Availability of medical services
- State structure, military and security services
- Drug dealing and trafficking
- Integration and multiculturalism
- Extremism and related issues
Director of the Middle East Consultancy Services
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Turkey
Specialist in economic policy.
Professor of Economics, Dept of Economics, SOAS
South Africa
