Jo Pettitt is Co-Director of Asylos, with Carolina Albuerne. They joined Asylos in January 2024. Prior to that Jo was a freelance research and evaluation consultant in the asylum and migration sector in the UK. She previously worked for ten years at Freedom from...

Carolina Albuerne is Co-Director at Asylos, with Jo Pettitt. They joined Asylos in January 2024. Carolina Albuerne brings over two decades of profound experience in the refugee and migration field to her role as Co-Director. Notably, she developed and led Refugee...

Fatima Ali is one of Asylos' Programme Managers. She previously worked at the UK Home Office, working on Citizenship case management, then moved to refugee protection in Greece with local Greek NGO's and with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. More recently Fatima has been...

Emily Wilbourn is a Programme Manager at Asylos. Prior to this she has worked as a freelance researcher, and in roles at Freedom from Torture and Amnesty International. She has a background in research relating to asylum and refugee issues.

Emma Avilés Thurlow is Asylos' Operations Assistant, joined in June 2024 and based in Barcelona. Over the nine last years, Emma was communications officer and political coordinator at the Debt Observatory in Globalisation (ODG) and comes from an activist background....

Maysara Alkhalaf is Asylos' Programme Manager for Network Research, based in Durham, United Kingdom. He is a Syrian researcher, political analyst, human rights advocate, and author. He has worked with a number of human rights organisations and refugee support...

Salma Fayad is Asylos' Network Coordinator, joined mid-2026. She has over a decade of experience working with local, international and grassroots organisations on community support and volunteer coordination, across many nationalities. Her work spans mental health,...