Expertise in: Women's & refugee development and advocacy

Priyali Sur is the Founder and the Executive Director of The Azadi Project, an organization that works for women from marginalized and refugee communities. She has built and implemented programs across Europe, Africa and South Asia, supporting more than 7,000 refugees and migrants from Afghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Niger, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen. She was a former news anchor for CNN-IBN in India, and has consulted as a Social Development expert for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Her work has been published in CNN, NPR, PBS, and The Guardian, among other international media outlets.