Based in London, Elizabeth Frantz is the program officer for Asia and the Middle East for the Open Society International Migration Initiative. She oversees a grantmaking program focused on reducing exploitation of migrant workers and promoting more just and equitable working conditions.
Elizabeth has been working with Open Society since 2008, when she started consulting for the Arab Regional Office in Jordan on projects aiming to safeguard migrants’ rights. She completed a PhD in anthropology in 2011 from the London School of Economics, where she specialized in labor, migration, and the political economy of development. Her PhD thesis examined labor migration from South Asia to the Arab region through a focus on Sri Lankan domestic workers in Jordan. She has carried out research on issues relating to migrants in Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Turkey.
Elizabeth Galvin is a curator at the British Museum working with various African collections. Having worked throughout the continent, her particular research interests are rock art, indigenous knowledge systems, material culture, and pictorial collections as well as increasing open access to museum collections and cultural heritage through online digital databases and resources. She has worked throughout Africa, but mainly in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Ethiopia, and has collaborated with many national and local museums throughout the continent to create partnerships and build local capacity. Additionally, having previously worked in documentary film, Elizabeth is interested in the history and use of visual anthropology and multimedia technology in museums, both online and in exhibitions. Currently, she is the curator and project lead on the Arcadia African Rock Art Image Project at the British Museum which will build an online digital database of 25,000 images of rock art from across the continent.
Jacqueline Hall is a Communications Officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) UK responsible for public information and outreach with regards to IOM's voluntary return programmes with focus on vulnerable migrants, gender issues, and African countries.
Since joining IOM Jacqueline has led the Monitoring and Evaluation of the AVR programmes in DRC and Kenya and spent four years providing AVR Operational and Reintegration assistance to beneficiaries from across Africa (all Francophone countries, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Sierra Leone), thus playing an important role in providing specialized assistance to the most vulnerable migrants.
Prior to joining IOM, Jacqueline was working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Malaysia Resettlement Unit.
Jackie is a graduate from the University of Warwick, with a Master's of Science degree in Development Studies from the LSE London School of Economics, and qualified in 2010 in the UNHCR Protection Learning Programme. She is also on the SURGE International Rescue Committee programme.
Will Norman is a Director on the Access to Sport team at Nike, Inc. He works on the Designed to Move initiative which aims to increase levels of physical activity around the world. (www.designedtomove.org). Prior to joining Nike, Will was Director of Research at The Young Foundation, a centre for social research and innovation based in East London. Will used ethnographic research to drive policy and service innovation for Central and Local Government, as well major charitable and philanthropic foundations.
Will co-founded ESRO, a consultancy firm that specialises in applying ethnographic research methodologies for companies and organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors, ranging from Microsoft to Unilever.
Will has a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics. His research looked at labour migration and transfrontier conservation on the Mozambique/ South Africa border. He’s a trustee of UpRising (a youth leadership charity he helped set up) and Spice (the UK’s leading Timebanking organisation.
Karin Wedig
Karin Wedig did an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge after finishing a BSc in Social Anthropology at the LSE. She worked as a technical adviser for GTZ, an agency of the German development cooperation, in Uganda, Indonesia
and Germany, and also Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Egypt.
Karin undertook a secondment to ILO in Geneva and Bangladesh, and she conducted research for AFD and the German development cooperation. She is currently writing a PhD on rural labour markets in Uganda at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and also teaches at DESTIN within the LSE.