Experts on countries of origin by surname

My academic and professional qualifications include an undergraduate in Psychology (Academic year: 1997) and a post-graduate degree and training (Academic year: 1997-98 and 1999-2000) in Clinical Psychology. My clinical work is diverse and covers assessment and therapy for adults and minority ethnic groups for various conditions. As a multilingual psychologist with multi-cultural experience, I can assess efficiently and provide culturally emotional sensitive service.

My employment history involves working as a psychologist:

1. In the UK, I have been working in the UK for last 18 years. I used to work with Nafas Drug Treatment Centre (my post was funded by NHS), All Together Project (UK Gov.), PR UK and The UK Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy, London School of Psychology and Health.

I have also gained international experience by working in India and Bangladesh.

2. In India, with People in Distress (PID). Currently, I am working as a Part time Faculty for Post Graduate Diploma in Health and Hospital Management with International Medical Centre.

3. In Bangladesh, with National Institute of Mental Health, Marie Stopes Clinic, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) - a worldwide… Read more

The Expert is a UK-educated Barrister (NP) with extensive fieldwork experience in Bangladesh and the UK. He is a Lecturer at BAC International Study Centre based in Bangladesh. An expert on Bangladeshi society and culture, with particular expertise in Bangladeshi politics, human rights (gender and sexuality), religious minorities (Hindus, Christians, Atheists), he has conducted research, advisory and consultancy work in Bangladesh on the formal and informal justice systems, freedom of speech and other political rights, anti-corruption, violence against women, minority rights, etc. There is a strong network of experts all over Bangladesh to verify legal and other documents as required. In addition, the expert is available and able to give oral testimony before any court and tribunal if necessary to support his opinion.

Region Covered: South & Central Asia — including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan.

Country Witness Expert on South & Central Asia, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan.

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Dr. Guita G. Hourani is an independent consultant following an academic career as a professor and researcher. She is a recognized migration specialist and expert witness in legal migration cases, holding a Ph.D. from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Dr. Hourani currently serves as an Expert on Citizenship for the European Union Democracy Observatory and holds senior research appointments at her alma mater in Japan and at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon. As a consultant, she worked on projects for ILO, IOM, UNDP, the EU among others. Her research is widely recognized for spotlighting marginalized populations—such as Kurds in Lebanon, Ukrainian women in Lebanon, Lebanese migrants in Gulf countries, Lebanese returnees, Syrian refugees, and parents of Lebanese emigrants—and for shaping migration policy through grounded, field-based scholarship. She was also the founding director of the world’s first academic center dedicated to Lebanese migration and diaspora studies.

C. Julia Huang is until recently a Professor of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Huang’s specialty includes religion, gender, and migration. She has done fieldwork in Taiwan, Malaysia, the United States, and shorter periods of research in Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, and China.  Huang has published articles in the Journal of Asian Studies, Ethnology, Positions, Nova Religio, the Eastern Buddhist, and the European Journal for East Asian Studies. She is the author of Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement (Harvard University Press, 2009) and a co-author of Religion and Charity: The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies (co-authored with Weller and Wu)(Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Third-generation Senior Legal Practitioner and Managing Partner of Credence LP, one of Bangladesh’s leading law firms, with over 15 years of experience. Regularly provides expert legal opinions and appears in proceedings from lower courts and tribunals to the Appellate Division, with expertise spanning constitution, fundamental rights, criminal law, maritime, commercial, and Islamic inheritance law.