Trustees
The Board of Trustees is Asylos’ main decision-making body and legally responsible for the organisation, including its financial health. Our dedicated trustees were elected by our network to represent volunteers’ interest or were recruited externally for their substantive and/or managerial expertise. Board membership is a voluntary, unpaid role and our board operates almost exclusively on a remote basis.
Phil Arnold
Phil Arnold is Chair of Asylos' Board of Trustees and has had a range of roles progressing human rights. Phil has supported people seeking asylum and refugees since 2002 in a variety of roles and countries. He is currently Head of Refugee Support for the British Red...
Diamantoula Vlantoni
Diamantoula Vlantoni is Vice Chair of Asylos' Board of Trustees. Diamantoula has a background in social psychology and her field experience is in migration and refugees; homelessness and social exclusion; human rights; mental health and volunteerism. She has working...
Teslim Adeyanju
Teslim Adeyanju is the Treasurer on Asylos’ Board of Trustees. He is a Chartered Accountant and Financial Data Analyst, combining expertise in finance and data science to promote transparency, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making. He supports organisations in using financial data to improve strategy and impact.
Katharina Natter
Katharina Natter is part of Asylos' Board of Trustees, and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University, researching and teaching comparative public policy and migration. Katharina obtained her PhD at the Department of Sociology of...
Tesfalem Yemane
Tesfalem Habte Yemane is part of Asylos' Board of Trustees, and works as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. He works on an ESRC funded Channel Crossings research project that aims at examining and understanding the small boat crossings...
Stephanie Huber-Nagel
Stephanie Huber-Nagel is part of Asylos' Board of Trustees. She has provided research and advocated on human rights and refugee issues since 2003. She co-founded Asylum Research Centre (ARC) in 2010 and its charitable arm, ARC Foundation, in 2016. Prior to that,...
Yiğit Aksakoğlu
Yiğit Aksakoğlu is part of Asylos' Board of Trustees, and a civil society professional and human rights advocate with over two decades of experience working across Europe and the Middle East. His work has focused on developing and implementing advocacy strategies,...
Julia Vonk
Julia Vonk is member of Asylos' Board of Trustees. She currently works at the Ministry of Social Affairs in The Hague. Previously, she worked at an NGO specialising in international political dialogue and gained experience with COI research at the Dutch Council for...
Dick Oosting
Dick Oosting is part of Asylos' Board of Trustees. He has many years of experience working in human rights, starting in the 1970s when he coordinated Amnesty International’s first worldwide campaign against torture. After serving five years as Amnesty’s Deputy...
Liz Williams
Liz Williams is a member of Asylos' Board of Trustees, and started her career as a COI research specialist. She went on to co-found Asylum Research Centre in 2010 where she was co-Director for ten years and subsequently a trustee. Her focus was promoting standards in...