People
Short biographies
Richard Stanton
consultant
After graduating as MA in International Relations at Sussex University (UK), Richard worked as a researcher on a range of issues from international development to the funding of local authorities. His research included comparative work across EU member states on investment in local infrastructure, and on systems of local and regional government. Then as an officer of the Greater London Authority from 2000 to 2008 he led work for the Mayor of London to develop regional policy on immigration and asylum, and a strategic approach to the integration of migrants in Europe’s most diverse city. Richard offers particular expertise in strategy for migrant integration including employment; financial allocation; use of data; and policy analysis at national or EU level.
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work +44 (0)1273 328059
cell +44 (0)7985 455269
Sue Lukes
consultant
Sue Lukes has been freelance since 1996, but started in refugee resettlement in 1974 as a volunteer. Having got a degree in Modern History (specialising in 17th century Wales) from Somerville College, Oxford, she eventually found work running a resettlement and community development programme with Latin American refugees. From 1983 she worked in housing, variously running housing aid, information, research, policy and legal services in London, latterly for Shelter. She now offers training, consultancy and research but also does a lot of pro bono work. She chairs Music in Detention, is on the board of ARHAG HA Ltd, a member of the London mayor’s Housing Equalities Standing Group, convenes her synagogue education group, offers advice and training to a range of community organisations, ran the Chile Committee for Justice that organised around the extradition of Pinochet and occasionally helps with holocaust education (her father arrived with the Kindertransport in 1939). She is bilingual in Spanish and English.
sue.lukes at our domain name
work +44 (0)20 7359 1455
cell +44 (0)7715 008536
Zafir Behlic
consultant
Zafir Behlic has worked as a freelance consultant since 2004, after 11 years as a manager, adviser and development worker in the voluntary sector in the UK. He holds a BA Honours in Marketing Communications and a Master’s degree with Distinction in Migration Studies. Zafir is PRINCE2 Practitioner and is currently studying towards Diploma in Digital Marketing at Oxford College of Marketing. Zafir has worked on a range of migration, IT and communications projects in the UK and Europe. Zafir loves mountains and skiing and runs a few half-marathons for charities.
zafir.behlic at our domain name
work +44 (0)20 8144 1255
cell +44 (0)7939 140 812
Anna Reisenberger
consultant
Anna Reisenberger’s early career was as a teacher, development worker, Senior Lecturer and Vice Principal in Adult Education. She then spent nine years as Head of Participation and Achievement and Manager of Quality Improvement Programmes for the Learning and Skills Development Agency. She joined the Refugee Council in 2002 as Director of Policy and Development and then became its Deputy Chief Executive and Acting Chief Executive. In the past two years as a consultant she has focused on education and refugee issues, drawing on her skills in programme management, research, evaluation and policy analysis. Her personal interest in sailing led to her taking 3 months out to sail the Indian Ocean.
anna.reisenberger at our domain name
work +44 (0)20 7622 1632
cell +44 (0)7948 830919
Marian Mackintosh
consultant
Marian Mackintosh (nee Storkey) has a PhD and an MSc in Demography as well as 25 years work experience in demographic, social and economic research. She has been an employee of public, private, academic and voluntary organizations. She spent 10 years working for the London Research Centre/ Greater London Authority (GLA) where she was responsible for ethnic minority demography and statistics including statistics relating to migrant groups. She has undertaken many projects developing new methodologies to improve the information available on these communities. For the past five years she has been working freelance.
marian.mackintosh at our domain name
work +44 (0)1225 427016
cell +44 (0)7905 369288
Bastian Vollmer
consultant
Bastian is a Research Officer at COMPAS, Oxford University (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society). Previously he worked at the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research. He was educated at Cambridge University and at the University of Amsterdam. He has carried out research in several EU states on migrant employment and other immigration issues. His main research interests are migration processes (particularly irregular and transit migration); discursive formations of policy-making; control mechanisms and securitization regimes of migration. His current work focuses the role of imaginations in constructing migration aspirations and intentions by people in countries such as Morocco, Senegal, Turkey and Ukraine.
bastian.vollmer at our domain name
work +44 (0)1865 284988
cell +44 (0)7811 152573
Stephen Lord
consultant
Stephen started his career as a labour economist, and was a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Keele. Following a secondment to the public sector union NALGO, he has worked for a variety of organisations, including the Local Government Information Unit, the Association of London Authorities and the Local Government Association. He was Director of Local Government Finance at London Councils (previously the Association of London Government) between September 2003 and October 2008. His main interests are public spending and local government finance.
stephen.lord at our domain name
work +44 (0)20 7272 7995
cell +44 (0)7800 523 920
Maknun Ashami
consultant
Maknun left Eritrea and came to London in 1977. He has been a consultant for the World University Service and Ford Foundation in Sudan. His community work includes acting as an advisor to Band Aid; helping to set up AFFORD, the African Foundation for Development; work with Comic Relief; the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the City Parochial Foundation; and the Evelyn Oldfield Unit. He teaches International Development at Birbeck College, University of London.
maknun.ashami at our domain name
work +44 (0)20 7354 8900
cell +44 (0)7939 151 141