Our People

Celine Ryan - Board of Director & Advisory Board Member (Research & Community work)

Former Programme Leader (MSc in Business and Hospitality) and lecturer at Shannon College of Hotel Management - in the areas of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, HRM, Business Skills Development, and Management of Organisational Change. 

Interests include economics, sociology and higher-level education, and student development.

Dr. K.M.Parivelan - Advisory Board Member (Research)

Serves as Associate Professor at School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance and as Chairperson of Centre for Statelessness and Refugee Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Previously he had served at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for facilitating the Post-Tsunami recovery and at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and facilitated the voluntary repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees as part of peace process.

Interests include International Humanitarian Law; Disaster management: Policy and Practices/ DRR; Refugees Protection/ Policy Advocacy & Statelessness Issues; Forced Migration/ Displacement; Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution/ Transformation; International Relations/ Foreign Policy

Dr. Nandini Gupta (Research Director) 

She is Andrew Grene Scholar supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She was a Research Assistant in EU funded project H2020 “Pericles” and currently working with another European project “PAVE”. She is very much interested in promoting community mindfulness workshops and her research outcome brings out the waves of sustainable change and practices of inclusion in society.

Khurram Iqbal (Community Work Director)

Holds Certificate degree in Asylum and Immigration Law from School of Law, Irish Law Society in Dublin, Ireland, member in United Kashmir Peace Forum and active social worker.

Interests include community development & peace building and other rights advocacy groups



Omar Faroque Newton (Financial Director) 

As a social activist work with marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Interest in promoting multi-cultural languages in Ireland and promoting International Mother Language Day celebration in Ireland.

Vadivel Raj Sundaram (Executive Director)

Freelance Researcher interests in peace economy, refugees and migrant integration, social diversity management, human cultural capabilities in creative economy and positive peacebuilding