People

Principals

Associates

Board of Directors

Team

David Simmonds MP

David has been the Conservative MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner since December 2019. He joined RAMP as a Principal in July 2020. David sits on both the Education Select Committee and the Finance Select Committee.

Rt. Hon. Caroline Nokes MP

Caroline has been the Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton North since 2010. She is Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee and a former Immigration Minister. Caroline joined RAMP as a Principal in January 2021.

Tim Farron MP

Tim has been the Liberal Democrat MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale since 2005, and is a former Leader of the Liberal Democrats. He has been a RAMP Principal since the beginning of the project in 2018.

Olivia Blake MP

Olivia Blake MP joined RAMP as a Principal in November 2021. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam since 2019. Olivia is interested in asylum, migration and refugee policy and its relationships to young, disabled, or LGBTQ+ people, as well as people fleeing the effects of the climate emergency. 

Stephen Timms MP

Stephen Timms has been the Labour MP for East Ham since 1994 and joined RAMP as a Principal in March 2022. He is Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee and the APPG for Immigration Law and Policy. He has previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Financial Secretary to the Treasury and is the Labour Party's Faith Envoy.

Baroness Ruth Lister of Burtersett

Baroness Lister has joined RAMP as an Associate in December 2022. In 1999, she was awarded a CBE for her work on poverty and social exclusion and was appointed as Labour member Lords in 2010. She served in the Lords Human Rights Joint Committee and Citizenship and Civic Engagement Committee. Baroness Lister is a former Director of the Child Poverty Action Group and now is its Honorary President. She is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Baroness Nosheena Mobarik

Baroness Nosheena Mobarik has joined RAMP as an Associate in June 2022. She was appointed as a Conservative Member of the House of Lords in 2014 and served as a Government Whip from 2016 – 2017. In September 2017, she also represented Scotland as Conservative Member of the European Parliament.

Lord German OBE

Lord German OBE joined RAMP as an Associate in May 2023. He was the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2008 and was appointed as a Liberal Democrat Member of Lords in 2010. In 2015 he was the Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Work and Pensions.

Sue Rubenstein: Chair

Sue is an very experienced Non-Executive Director, having spent 20 years in a range of board roles, with expertise in strategic leadership and organisational development. She is also Chair of the charity Bloody Good Period.

Awale Olad

Awale is currently a Senior Manager at Vialto Partners immigration advisory firm and a Councillor in the London Borough of Camden. He has previously worked for both Deloitte and the Migrant Rights Network.

Sarah Mulley

Sarah has worked as an Executive Director at the Greater London Authority and an Associate Director at the IPPR think tank and currently serves as a strategic adviser for a number of other policy organisations.

Rosie Evans

Rosie is the Director of Strategy at Resurgo, a charity that equips organisations to deliver ambitious and sustainable change through coaching and impact management. Previously a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and at social consultancy the Good Faith Partnership, she has previously worked at a number of charities and social enterprises where she specialised in designing and delivering programmes to deliver sustainable social change at scale.

Srivatsallan V. Sridharan: Treasurer

Srivatsallan is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor, with over 13 years of global experience working with clients in the financial services sector in the UK, Australia and India. He is currently working with KPMG, as a Manager in their Technology Risk Consulting team. He has experience of mentoring in the voluntary sector, guiding students on their career opportunities when working with KPMG in Brisbane and with the Access Project in the UK.

Binita Mehta-Parmar

Binita is Head of Partnerships at Engage Britain and Deputy Chair of Watford Conservatives. She was the last Conservative Group leader at Watford Council: at 24, the youngest council group leader in the country, first Hindu and first Indian woman to represent Watford. She was a founding Director of Modern Britain, a centre-right think tank working on issues important to BME communities, and authored a report on migration policy post-Brexit.

Ian Robinson

Ian is a Partner at Vialto Partners, the international law firm specialising in global mobility. Ian specialises in immigration law and before joining Vialto he has held several roles in the Home Office including Assistant Director on Economic Migration.



Roudie Shafie

Roudie is a Director at OVID Health, a communications agency. Before joining OVID she held senior public affairs roles in the life science industry. Roudie was previously a senior policy adviser on immigration and integration to Boris Johnson as Mayor of London. Prior to joining City Hall, Roudie worked as a coordinator of local refugee and migrant organisations and served on the first board of the Asylum Support Appeals Project.

Alasdair Murray

Alasdair is Director Of External Affairs at KPMG UK. He was previously a Director at Quiller Consultants, Director of CentreForum, Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform and the Economics and Brussels Correspondent of the Times. He is Trustee of British Future, the non-partisan migration and identity think tank and chair of the Macfarlane Trust.

James Hedgeland

James is a Director at Flint Global. Prior to this he was a Director at Hanbury Strategy and was also a Special Adviser in Government, covering immigration issues in the Home Office and HM Treasury.

David Barclay

David is a Partner at the Good Faith Partnership where he leads of a variety of projects involving research, innovation and strategy. He has been a Community Organiser in East London where he worked on money and debt issues, and is a former President of the Oxford University Student Union.



Core Team

Laura Taylor: Executive Director

Laura joined RAMP in May 2020. She has previously worked in policy, advocacy and campaigning roles in the international development sector, and in public affairs roles in the private sector, and served on the Board of The Climate Coalition. 

Project Officer: Louis Dean

Louis joined the RAMP team as a Project Officer in January 2023. He has previously worked as a Political Communications Intern for the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association, a Project Officer for Citizens Advice and a Project Manager for Tech Against Terrorism. He is also completing a part-time Masters at King’s College London in the Terrorism, Security and Society Programme.

Engagement Adviser: Sabrina Huck

Sabrina joined RAMP in November 2021 as an adviser to Olivia Blake MP. Prior to joining RAMP, she worked as a political consultant in a London-based public affairs agency, and as a freelance writer, covering migration policy, and with grassroots movements fighting for change in the sector. Sabrina is now RAMP’s Engagement Adviser, starting the role in October 2023.

Ange Henry: Executive Assistant

Ange joined the RAMP team as an Executive Assistant on a part-time basis in September 2022. She also supports the Good Faith Partnership and has worked as an Executive Assistant for the last 18 years, bringing her own blend of knowledge, experience and common sense to the role. 

Advisers

Heather Staff: Adviser to Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham and to Baroness Lister of Burtersett

Heather advises both Sir Stephen Timms MP and Baroness Lister of Burtersett. She is a Labour Councillor in the borough of Islington where she serves as Migrants Champion along with another colleague.

Nabeel Sheraz: Adviser to David Simmonds, Conservative MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner and to Baroness Mobarik

Nabeel previously worked as Head of Research on the Conservative Mayoral campaign in London. Prior to that, he worked as a Policy Advisor at the Greater London Authority, specialising in Economic Policy. He has also worked on a number of political campaigns in a mixture of policy and communications roles.

Angela Afzal: Adviser to Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat MP for Westmorland & Lonsdale and to Lord German OBE

Angela advises Tim Farron MP and as of May 2023 also advises Lord German OBE. Angela has previously worked as an immigration lawyer and in the voluntary sector supporting asylum seekers and refugees in London.

Shona Elliott: Adviser to the Bishop of Durham

Shona joined RAMP in December 2020 as Adviser to the Bishop of Durham. Shona previously led the public affairs function for a London Borough following working in the private and third sector in campaigning and communication roles.

Oussama El Fatihi: Adviser to Caroline Nokes, Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton North

Oussama has previously worked as a researcher and political adviser for a group of Conservative MPs and Peers on issues relating to EU and constitutional affairs.