Speakers Biography

Executive Director, Centre for Hizmet Studies
Ismail Mesut Sezgin holds a PhD from Leeds Beckett University on 'Moral Responsibility and Islam' and is the Executive Director of the Centre for Hizmet Studies. He is a research assistant in Religion and Society, Regent's Park College, Oxford and a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility at Leeds Business School.
Lecturer in International Relations
Naveed S. Sheikh holds a First Class BA (hons) in Politics and Modern History from the university of Buckingham, where he completed his degree in two years, received five merit prizes for academic excellence, and graduated with the university's highest honour, the Edgar Palamountain Medal of Excellence, presented to him by Lady Thatcher in 1997.

Academic and Chairperson, Dialogue Society
Ozcan is a non-practising Barrister and member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. He is the Chairperson of the Dialogue Society; was the Executive Chairperson of the same organisation; the Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed biannual academic Journal of Dialogue Studies and a PhD candidate in the sociology of human rights at the University of Sussex.