Director of Programmes and Learning

Ayesha Saran is the Trust’s Director of Programmes and Learning. Prior to that she led its Migration programme for more than a decade. Ayesha has also worked for intergovernmental organisations, firstly at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in London and then for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Albania. Ayesha’s work there involved political analysis and reporting on issues such as elections, trafficking and human rights. She also spent some time working as a freelance journalist in London. Ayesha is currently Vice-Chair of think tank British Future and on the boards of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate and Larger Us.