Aya Burweila is the Founder and Director of Code on the Road and a BBC Expert Woman in Terrorism and Radicalization. She is also the Ambassador and Special Envoy of the European Public Law Organization to Libya and North Africa. Prior to establishing Code on the Road, she was the head of Research & Public Policy at Solidarity Now, an Athens-based NGO active nation-wide in the field of human rights. Born in Benghazi, Libya, she holds a certificate in Building Capacities on Arms Control in the MENA Region from the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, certificates in Conflict Analysis and Interfaith Conflict Resolution from the United States Institute of Peace, a certificate in Terrorism Studies from the University of St. Andrews, an MA in International Relations and Affairs from the University of Indianapolis, and a BA in Political Science from the University of La Verne. She has participated in projects and field visits in camps in Germany, Italy, Lebanon and in Greece, where she also worked at the Leros island hotspot. Aya is also a Senior Adviser at the Research Institute for European and American Studies where for ten years, she was an analyst specializing in extremism and conflict in North Africa, Europe, and the Balkans. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Hellenic National Defense Academy (SETHA). Aya’s work on integration, conflict and extremism has been published in a wide range of journals and platforms such as the International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, European Eye on Radicalization, the Oxford Law Society Journal, the China U.S. Focus Journal, The Jerusalem Journal of Near East Affairs and the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, as well as mainstream publications like the Huffington Post and Al Arabiya. Aya is also the author of the EU commissioned “Greece National Report 2018: Migrant and Youth Social Inclusion Through Entrepreneurship (MY-SITE)” for the People for Change Foundation. She has been quoted by Time Magazine, Jane’s Military Intelligence Review, Voice of America, Infobae, The Washington Times, The Guardian, Jeune Afrique, The National, Protothema, Ahval, the Athens News and regularly appears on major broadcast networks to provide insights and commentary. Email: aya@codeontheroad.tech

Olivia Quinn is the Head of Programs and Partnerships at Code on the Road. She is a consultant and researcher focusing on alternative funding, humanitarian innovation for reaching vulnerable populations and humanitarian governance for Middle East and North Africa migration. She brings a background in learning and development and public sector strategy consulting at EY and PwC in the Middle East. Before joining the humanitarian sector, Olivia spent over 10 years working in the private sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), she was consultant and advisor to regional centers of government working with youth engagement, economic diversification agenda and labor market inclusion. She designed and ran a ‘consulting in the community program’, applying consulting skills in refugee camps and vulnerable communities, including Greece and Pakistan. Olivia worked with the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation as well as leading research and consultancies on Islamic Finance to fund the UN Sustainable Development Goals, private sector partnerships and education in emergencies with organizations including the UNDP, Human Crescent and Erasmus University. Olivia received her undergraduate degree from the American University in Cairo and completed an MSc from the London School of Economics in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies with a focus on Islamic Finance for development. She is fluent in English, French and Spanish with a strong working knowledge of Arabic.

Sohail Nakhooda is Head of Press and Media for Code on the Road (COR). He is also Executive Director of Kalam Research & Media (KRM), a Publishing Director of the Libya Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS), and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Faith Centre of the London School of Economics (LSE). At KRM is the Co-Leader of the Islamic Analytic Theology project with the Sir John Templeton Foundation, and responsible for coordinating research with scholars and academic institutions from around the world in the fields of Theology, Science, Philosophy, Inter-faith and Sufism, and commissioning over 60 academic works under the Islamic Analytic Theology series. He was also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Islamica Magazine which he launched at the London School of Economics (LSE). Sohail is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Kalam: Journal of Islamic Theology. Sohail has worked as Secretary of the Libya Stabilization Team and also with the Support Offices of the Executive Team of the National Transitional Council (NTC) of Libya in Benghazi, and was Private Secretary to the Libyan Ambassador to the UAE, Dr Aref Ali Nayed. He was former advisor to HRH Prince Ghazi Bin Muhammad of Jordan; Chief Archivist for ‘A Common Word,’ an inter-faith initiative led by King Abdullah II of Jordan; and a Junior Fellow of the Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute of Jordan. After his formative schooling in Lisbon, London, Karachi and Leicester, he went on to receive a BSc in Government from the London School of Economics (LSE), postgraduate certificates in Catholic Theology from the Angelicum in Rome under the Vatican’s prestigious Nostra Aetate scholarship, and an MA in Protestant Theology from the University of Nottingham, UK. He won the British Academy Scholarship to pursue doctoral studies in Philosophical Theology at the University of Nottingham. Sohail has over 20 years of book and graphic design expertise and was a finalist in the prestigious British Book Design and Production Awards (2002) in London, and is an acclaimed photographer. He is fluent in English, Portuguese, Gujarati, Urdu and Italian and his research interests span Islamic Civilizational Studies, Philosophical Theology, Inter-faith Relations, Diplomacy, Conflict Resolution, CVE/PVE, Hermeneutics, Photography, Art and Design. Sohail is a globetrotter and has lived in 15 cities in 12 countries. He can be contacted at sohail@codeontheroad.tech