Academic with expertise on many countries in the Middle East
Independent researcher and Middle East consultant. Academic with extensive experience in country expert reports, nationality assessment, and language analysis.
Occupation: Director of the Middle East Consulting Ltd; Honorary Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Dr Ghobadi, Kaveh
Areas of expertise: country expert reports, nationality assessment, language analysis, Gender-based violence, Ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East, and Document authentication.
Occupation: Independent researcher
Countries of expertise: Kurdistan Regional of Iraq (KRI), Iraq, Iran, Turkey
Expert on Afghanistan with experience of producing several hundred expert reports on asylum cases from 2004 onwards on all aspects of Afghanistan and has acted as expert witness in trials in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands. In recent months expert has produced several reports on Pakistani asylum seeker.
Dr Gordon’s China country expertise sits at the intersection of legal, political, cultural, social and economic knowledge. She conducted her doctoral research on the hukou (household registration) system and its connection to family planning, adoption, immigration and migration control policies. Thereafter she led a research report on adoption and foster care, and also on patterns of discrimination in China – including ethnic, religion, political, gender, sexuality discrimination, for two NGOs.
Dr Gordon currently works in the private and non-for-profit sector as a China consultant.
Journalist and Broadcaster, with direct experience of 'post-war' Iraq