Migrants' Rights Network (MRN)

Awale Olad is the parliamentary liaison officer for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration, working on building relationships with parliamentarians and policy makers. He joined MRN to assist with the organisation of political and public meetings related to immigration and to prepare briefings, comment pieces, parliamentary questions and submissions for Members of Parliament, peers and media.

Awale has a MA in European Studies from King’s College London and spent the past few years working as a Parliamentary Research officer to the Justice Minister and later to a backbench MP as well as working for the Camden BME Alliance. He was recently elected as a local Councillor in the London Borough of Camden and takes part in local decision making and campaigning.