Stephen Wordsworth CMG LVO
Executive Director
Stephen has been Executive Director of Cara since 2012. Before joining Cara, he was a career member of the UK Diplomatic Service, where his last two posts were as Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow (2003-2005) and British Ambassador in Belgrade (2006-2010). He originally graduated in Modern Languages (German and Russian) from the University of Cambridge. In March 2022 Stephen was appointed Chancellor of Cardiff Metropolitan University.
See Stephen's CV.
Zeid Al Bayaty
Deputy Director & Fellowship Programme Manager
Zeid joined Cara in
2011 and worked in positions of increasing responsibility before becoming
Deputy Director in 2018.
Sara Bermudez
Team Leader, Enquiries
Sinan Özyürek
Team Leader, New Fellows
Lucia Simms
Team Leader, Active Fellows and Programme Manager, InspirEurope+
Karolina Bilik
Fellowship Programme Officer
Jake Coulter
Fellowship Programme Officer
Jennifer Donnellan
Fellowship Programme Officer
Ellie Jordan
Fellowship Programme Officer
Madalena Massena
Fellowship Programme Officer
Jess McFadden
Fellowship Programme Officer
Alex Purser
Fellowship Programme Officer
Tim Riches
Fellowship Programme Officer
Oscar Saunders
Fellowship Programme Officer
Linh Dieu Tran
Fellowship Programme Officer
Fabio Miccoli
Fellowship Programme Assistant
Tessa Bell
Cara Scotland Manager (based in Edinburgh)
Kate Robertson
Middle East/Syria Programme Adviser
Kate joined Cara as Deputy Director in 2006, and developed and ran Cara’s first regional programme, for Iraq, from 2006-2012. The Iraq Research Fellowship Programme, which she developed as part of this, led to what is now the global Fellowship Programme. She stepped down as a staff member in July 2015 but continued to work with Cara, from home and in a consultancy role, to develop ideas for Cara’s regionally-based Syria Programme, which ran from 2016-2024 with some follow-on work continuing into 2025.
