Academic Executive Officer at Trinity College Dublin, Chairperson of the Africa Solidarity Centre Ireland. Ireland National Coordinator of the Greek Refugee Forum and the Movement of Refugees Ideas and Solutions for Europe (RISE), working with marginalised ethnic minorities in Ireland and Europe and is engaged in promoting equality by bridging the gap between those communities and policy makers. Worked with Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI), the Irish Refugee Council as founding member of the Campaign to End Direct Provision and National Coordinator, Research Assistant in Counting the Cost "Barriers to employment after Direct Provision Report" and as an immigration caseworker.

I am a Research Officer at the Poverty and Social Welfare Policy Unit of the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka. My research interests include poverty and development policy, econometrics and economic modelling.

Davies Banda is an active researcher in the field of sport policy and sport-for-development. He has worked collaboratively with other academics commissioned to undertake national and international monitoring and evaluation of sport projects. His research interests are centred particularly on: youth sport and social inclusion policies, sport-for-development and social inclusion interventions, and corporate social responsibility through sport. His academic and practitioner interest within the sport-for-development sector focuses on designing and implementation of social interventions using sport as a tool for development. Davies has experience of working as a consultant in Europe and Africa where he has been engaged by private, voluntary and public sector bodies as M&E consultant.

Medical and Social developer