Team – Integrity Consulting | Sustainable Development Solutions

Umutcan Yüksel

Chief Executive Officer Italy

Umutcan Yüksel is a humanitarian professional and researcher specialising in migration governance, protection programming, humanitarian funding dynamics, and the political economy of EU externalisation. He is the creator of PRISM (Protection, Risk & Impact Severity Monitor), an open humanitarian analytics platform integrating 40+ authoritative datasets across 230+ countries, and currently serves as a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, researching donor decision-making in humanitarian funding allocation under severe resource constraints. He is also affiliated with the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul as part of an EU-Horizon funded research project on EU migration management, and is the founder of Integrity Consulting. From 2017 to 2022, Umutcan served as a Programme Specialist at the European Commission's DG ECHO, supporting management of the EU Facility for Refugees in Türkiye, before leading multi-million EUR portfolios at international organisations, including earthquake response operations. His work on power dynamics in humanitarian aid and migration governance has been published in various academic journals.

Protection & GBV Migration Data & Analytics Research Donor Engagement Capacity Building

Christophe Gadrey

Senior Consultant Morocco

Christophe Gadrey brings over 30 years of experience in development and humanitarian-aid project cycle management, gained within civil society organisations, French territorial administration, and the European Commission (DG ECHO). He has extensive multi-stakeholder coordination experience involving military forces, civil protection, United Nations agencies, the Red Cross Movement, international and local NGOs, and national authorities. His multidisciplinary background bridges humanitarian assistance and development across protection, water and sanitation, health, food security, shelter, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Disaster Preparedness. Recent consultancy work includes training, support to project cycle management, and strategic guidance to partners such as GIZ, Diakonia, IOCC, Brot für die Welt, the International Civil Society Centre, and NRC.

Donor Engagement Project Cycle Management DG ECHO Capacity Building

Catherine Chazaly

Senior Consultant Belgium

Catherine Chazaly is a humanitarian and social protection expert with over 20 years' experience working in complex and fragile countries. Her career path started with community-based organisations in Africa and in the UK and continued through her career with the Red Cross Movement, INGOs, UN agencies and the European Commission. Catherine has worked in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Since 2019, she has been working as an independent consultant supporting governments, donors and international organisations to design and develop policies and programmes that strengthen humanitarian responses and social protection systems — with a particular emphasis on gender and social inclusion. Her work has constantly involved facilitating processes to enhance learning, capacities and shared knowledge; through continuous practice she has developed a strong set of skills in designing and facilitating capacity-development activities, workshops and events.

Migration Livelihoods GEDSI Cash & Voucher Social Protection Food Security Capacity Building

Youmna Ghosn

Senior Consultant Canada

Senior MEL and evaluation specialist with 15 years of experience designing MEAL systems and conducting independent evaluations for international and national NGOs across multiple countries in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Expertise in results-based management, mixed-methods evaluation design, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Experience spans humanitarian and development programming, including work within the triple-nexus framework. Technical focus includes humanitarian assistance, education, MHPSS, SGBV-focused protection programming, women's empowerment, and social cohesion. Work spans projects funded by UN agencies, bilateral donors, and private foundations, with strong expertise in evaluation design, evidence generation, and the use of findings to support accountability, learning, and programmatic decision-making.

MEAL Data & Analytics Research Methods Donor Engagement

Dr Nefise Ela Gokalp Aras

Senior Consultant Italy

Dr Gokalp-Aras is a Senior Researcher at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII), Sweden/Türkiye, since 2017. She was the Principal Investigator of two EU Horizon projects (GAPs: De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond, and RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration). She is a postdoctoral researcher of the PHOENIX: Human Mobility, Global Challenges and Resilience in an Age of Social Stress project. She has a BA in International Relations (Ankara University), an MSc in Climate Change and Development (University of London, SOAS), and an MSc and a PhD in Sociology (Middle East Technical University). She has more than 20 years of experience and has worked in different capacities and roles at public institutions, national and international NGOs, and the private sector in project management — particularly 16 years in academia and research. She is the editor of the International Journal of Human Mobility.

Migration Research Methods

Dr Amanda Bisong

Senior Consultant Netherlands

Amanda Bisong (PhD) is a policy analyst and researcher with over fifteen years of experience in policy implementation and research. Her expertise lies in migration, trade, development, and international law. Dr Bisong has a background in Law, with a PhD (cum laude) from VU Amsterdam (Netherlands) and master's degrees in International Law and Economics (World Trade Institute, Switzerland) and International Trade Policy and Trade Law (Lund University, Sweden). Her research and policy work focus on migration governance, labour mobility, trade facilitation and the links between trade and migration policies. She has authored several academic articles and op-eds on these themes. She has worked with African and European policymakers and international organisations in researching, designing and implementing policy solutions. She is affiliated with several academic research and policy networks.

Research Methods Migration Policy

Purvi Patel

Senior Consultant United States

Purvi Patel is an attorney and public-health professional in the humanitarian and international development sectors, specialising in livelihoods, protection, refugee status determination, and emergency response. She is currently adjunct faculty at Wheaton College's Humanitarian Disaster Institute in Illinois (USA), and until July 2025 served as a Humanitarian Assistance Officer in the US Foreign Service with USAID. From 2013 to 2024, Purvi worked for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), along with various INGOs and private-sector actors, and as an International Affairs Fellow in India through the Council on Foreign Relations.

Protection & GBV Migration Livelihoods MEAL Research Donor Engagement Durable Solutions Climate & DRR Capacity Building

Alize Seray Yüksel

Consultant Italy

Alize Seray Yüksel is a humanitarian protection and child rights specialist with over a decade of experience leading child protection, MHPSS, and education-in-emergencies programmes, primarily in response to the Syrian refugee crisis. She currently consults for NGOs in Türkiye, leading proposal development and donor engagement with GIZ, UNICEF, UNHCR, KfW, and the EU Delegation. From 2024 to 2025, she was a Child Protection Officer at UNICEF Türkiye, where she chaired the South-East Türkiye Child Protection Sub-Sector Working Group. Between 2017 and 2024, Alize worked with IOM, Concern Worldwide, SPARK, and CARE International across protection, psychosocial support, and education programming, and co-chaired the inter-agency MHPSS Sub-Working Group for South-East Türkiye from 2022 to 2024. She holds a Master's in Psychology and Communication and a Bachelor's in Primary Education from Gazi University.

Protection & GBV Child Protection MHPSS Education in Emergencies Donor Engagement

Kubilay Karagöktaş

Consultant Türkiye

Kubilay Karagöktaş is a humanitarian programme manager and independent consultant with nine years of experience across Türkiye, Syria, Ukraine, Sudan, and South Sudan. Trained as a social worker, he began his career in direct case management with refugees at SGDD-ASAM and the Turkish Red Crescent, working with Syrian, Afghan, Iraqi, and Iranian caseloads before moving into programme management at INTERSOS, IFRC, and GOAL Global, where he has managed ECHO, BPRM, UN, GFFO, and BMZ-funded projects from design through close-out. His consultancy work covers case-management reviews, mixed-methods evaluations, service mapping, and referral-pathway design with an age, gender, and diversity lens. In the field, Kubilay coordinated the 2023 earthquake response in southern Türkiye and ran ECHO mobile protection across three Ukrainian oblasts.

Protection & GBV Migration MHPSS MEAL Data & Analytics Research GEDSI Donor Engagement Social Protection TPM Capacity Building

Sezen Yalçın

Consultant Portugal

Sezen Yalçın is a senior Child Protection Specialist with 15 years of experience in child protection, child rights, community-based protection, GBV, and gender equality. She has worked extensively with UN agencies, international NGOs, and national humanitarian organisations, leading the design and implementation of multi-sectoral programmes in complex emergencies — including the Syria Crisis, Türkiye's 2023 Earthquake Response, and the Sudan refugee operations. Most recently, she supported UNICEF Türkiye on the design and scale-up of community-based child protection centres through qualitative research, systems analysis, and multi-stakeholder consultations. She is also collaborating with ILO to support public and private sector actors in strengthening responsible business conduct and child labour due diligence. She holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University, an MA in Sociology from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and an MA in Human Rights Law from İstanbul Bilgi University.

Protection & GBV Child Protection

Leju E. Joseph Wani

Consultant South Sudan

Leju E. Joseph Wani is a development and humanitarian professional based in Juba, South Sudan, specialising in monitoring and evaluation, project management, and strategic coordination across health, protection, and emergency response programmes. He holds a Master's Degree in Development Studies from Uganda Christian University and a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Juba. He currently serves as a National Consultant with University Research Co. (URC) on USAID-funded HIV/AIDS interventions in South Sudan, a role he has held intermittently since 2023. From 2015 to 2023, Leju worked across major international development and humanitarian organisations, including Palladium International (with funding from the Global Fund and Against Malaria Foundation), the Humanitarian and Development Consortium (supported by UNHCR, UNICEF, NPA, CARE, and NORAH), and Johns Hopkins University Affiliates (Jhpiego) under PEPFAR and USAID funding, where he led monitoring, evaluation, and learning across county- and national-level health programmes.

MEAL Health Programming

Dunja Bonacci Skenderović

Consultant Croatia

Dunja Bonacci Skenderović is an independent consultant and researcher focused on gender-based violence (GBV), femicide, and violence-against-women data in Croatia and the Western Balkans. She has more than 15 years of experience working with NGOs, international organisations, and public institutions on issues related to violence against women and gender equality. Her work includes analysis of national GBV policies, administrative data, institutional responses, and femicide cases, with a particular focus on how data can support evidence-based prevention and policy development. She is the author of several research studies, including analyses on intimate-partner femicide in Croatia, and is currently developing a relational database on femicide cases aimed at improving data integration and analytical approaches to violence against women. Her expertise includes qualitative and quantitative research, interviews, policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and translating complex data into accessible public and policy-oriented insights. Fluent in Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian.

Protection & GBV Femicide Research GEDSI

Yazid Jardat

Consultant Palestine · Spain

Senior MEAL specialist with extensive experience in research, evaluations, data quality assessments, and information management across humanitarian, development, and financial-sector programmes. Proven expertise in designing MEL frameworks, leading large-scale mixed-method data collection, and implementing third-party monitoring in complex contexts — including emergency operations in the Gaza Strip. Highly skilled in data analysis and visualisation (SPSS, R, Power BI, Tableau, GIS) and in developing analytical dashboards and financial monitoring tools for banking and MSME portfolio analysis. Experienced in assessing accountability mechanisms, programme performance, and service delivery quality, and translating complex datasets into clear insights for donor reporting and strategic decision-making. Strong background in capacity-building and MEL system strengthening, having delivered M&E and data management training for multiple organisations and field teams.

MEAL Data & Analytics Research Methods

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