Experts on countries of origin by surname

Dr. Nicole Bromfield is a professor of social work with over 20 years of international experience. Her PhD is in public policy with a health policy specialization and her dissertation was on the making of the trafficking victims protection act (TVPA), in which she interviewed 21 key policy players involved in the making of the TVPA. Nicole’s international experience, includes working in an educational capacity building program at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, working as an assistant professor at United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE, for six years and spending nearly two years as a Fulbright Research and Teaching Scholar at the University of Namibia, underscores her global perspective. Her scholarly pursuits are inherently interdisciplinary, utilizing perspectives from multiple related disciplines. Dr. Bromfield’s research program focuses on the social well-being of those who are vulnerable and at risk for exploitation, especially women and children, in a global context. Her research is deeply rooted in local capacity building and addresses critical issues such as the well-being of street-connected children and health policy recommendations related to child injury epidemiology. Currently, she is the principal investigator on a community-based… Read more

Cate Buchanan specializes in mediation and process design, and inclusive conflict analysis. Country foci in 2025 are Burma/Myanmar and Thailand. Previously, from 2015-17, she was Senior Adviser to the Nyein (Shalom) Foundation Myanmar supporting national dialogues and peace negotiation approaches. In 2018/19 she was a member of the UN Mediation Support Unit’s Standby Team of Experts. In 2020/21 she was a Senior Adviser to the Office of the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Yemen. Over 2021-2024, along with other consultancy works, Cate was Conflict Adviser to the Myanmar Livelihoods and Food Security Fund. From 2001-2013, she was a Programme Manager and Senior Adviser with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. In 2025, Cate manages an initiative to eliminate conflict-related sexual violence in Myanmar as well as a peace coaching process. She also provides advice to the European Institute for Peace; UN Women Afghanistan; the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Support Unit for Gender Equality and others. 

Nicola Bulled is a public health anthropologist. Her scholarship interrogates health inequalities, using mixed methods to examine the intersection of biology with the social to offer multi-level perspectives on public health programming, service delivery, and policy. Her specific fields of interest include HIV, infectious diseases, disease prevention technologies, health communication, and community collaboration.  She has engaged in research and public health programming in South Africa, Lesotho, Liberia, Greece, and the United States. Her research has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Fulbright IIE. 

I am a Law and DEI expert with 15+ years of experience and intersectional background. I have presence on: Walpole, GQ Heroes, MBS & British Council of Fashion, Attitude Magazine, quoted by Vogue Business and Boston Consultancy Group. I teach at Instituto Marangoni and have extensive experience in: LGBTQ+ Rights, Human Rights in Latin America, Political Landscape of Brazil and Latin American Countries, Law and Politics. 

Inge Butter holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and is a specialist on Chad and aspects of the Central African Republic (CAR). She has spent most of her professional career working for and affiliated with the African Studies Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands. She has 10 years of experience setting up research projects, carrying out fieldwork, analyzing results, monitoring and evaluating the process, as well as putting together reports for a variety of audiences. For the PhD, a total of 12 months of fieldwork were carried out over a period of three years, in both urban and rural locations in Chad and CAR. In that time, she became part of a strong network of local Chadian professionals. Inge’s areas of interest include (post)conflict dynamics and how these play out in an everyday setting, understanding local and trans-national socio-economic networks, and the interplay of insecurity and belonging. Her past research in Chad and CAR focussed on Arab nomads. While currently based in the USA, she is working on proposals for projects in Anglophone Cameroon, and publishing her PhD thesis as a book with De Gruyter.