Staff
Our wonderful staff team works from the UK, the Netherlands and Spain. We each work between 60% and 100% full time. As employees, we are paid for what we do. The organisational chart displays how we are structured. Scroll down to read more about each member of staff.
Jo Pettitt
Jo Pettitt 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...
Carolina Albuerne
Carolina AlbuerneCarolina 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...
Sally Marsh
Sally MarshSally Marsh is the Senior Fundraiser of Asylos. Most recently she was the Fundraiser at the Dutch NGO, Movement on the Ground in the Netherlands. Prior to that Sally’s career was in the UK working in several charities with a focus on young people, schools...
Patrick Annez de Taboada
Patrick Annez de TaboadaPatrick Annez de Taboada is the Network Coordinator of Asylos. Prior to joining Asylos, he worked as a policy advisor on migration and asylum for the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament. Additionally, he has coordinated welcoming and...
Emma Avilés Thurlow
Emma Avilés ThurlowEmma 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...
Fatima Ali
Fatima AliFatima 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...
Emily Wilbourn
Emily WilbournEmily 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. She can be...