Zubeda Limbada, Founder-Director, ConnectFutures
Founding Director of ConnectFutures - a female-led social enterprise founded in 2013 which delivers training and research around disinformation, extremism, anti-racism, hate and violence. She previously worked for over 15 years in the public sector as a senior member in a wide variety of local, national and pan-European policy-orientated policy and management work. She helped develop an operational accredited mentoring programme on behalf of statutory agencies and partners vulnerable to violent extremism during a two-year assignment with West Midlands Police Counter Terrorism Unit. Zubeda is a Clore Social Fellow (2014/15), an alumni of the IVLP programme (Dept of State, USA) and was invited to the White House Countering Violent Extremism (President Obama) summit in Washington in February 2015. She currently sits as an Advisory Board Member on the PREPARE project/EU Horizon 2020, the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network expert and is on the Board of Governors at Birmingham City University.