Biographies of Conference Directors and Chief Executive

Julia Purcell
Programme Director and Member of the Academic Staff since May 2005. Her interests include migration and refugees, integration, drugs policy, organised crime , counter-terrorism  and public diplomacy. She also convenes the annual Atlantic Youth Forum for bright independent thinkers from North America and Europe.
Julia was previously International Development Manager and UK Co-ordinator of the Kosovan Humanitarian Evacuation Programme, British Refugee Council (BRC). In 1993 she was seconded to UNHCR, Western Afghanistan on the emergency shelter programme for returning refugees.

Julia read English Language and Literature at Hull University (BA Hons).