Dr Gus Casely-Hayford Dr Gus Casely-Hayford is the inaugural Director of V&A East, appointed in March 2020. He is a curator and cultural historian who writes, lectures and broadcasts widely on culture, having presented a number of series for Sky, BBC radio and television and other channels.
Dr Melanie Green Descriptive grammar and syntactic theory, information structure, syntactic typology, West African languages, especially Hausa and Kenyang.
Dr Vino Kanapathipillai International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.
Professor David Parkin Lecturer and professor of African anthropology, SOAS 1964-1996; professor of social anthropology, University of Oxford 1996-2008, emeritus thereafter. Fieldwork in eastern Africa 1966-2002 for a number of years in total, among Luo, Giriama and Swahili-speakers, on Islam, entrepreneurship, political ethnicity, language, material culture, and medical anthropology.
Dr Georgie Pope Georgie Pope is a music promoter and entrepreneur working to encourage cross cultural exchange through music and dance.
Rosalind Wade Haddon Islamic art, archaeology and history in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Yemen; ceramics and their role as trade indicators.