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.
Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland The politics of intangible culture in ASEAN; women's role in Indonesian documentary film; trance-possession dance in Java
Dr Georgie Pope Georgie Pope is a music promoter and entrepreneur working to encourage cross cultural exchange through music and dance.