Julian founded Dialogue Action while a Non-Resident Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on International Conflict and Negotiation. He is the Executive Director and has over 15 years’ experience in developing and leading high-level political dialogue processes. Julian leads on maintaining and growing our relationships with organisations and individuals worldwide and oversees our programmes. He is also an External Member of the Computational Humanities Lab at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University.

During his career Julian has built networks of high-level political, ministerial, governmental, economic, business, and religious leaders across Europe, Southeast Asia, North Africa, and Western Asia, to advance reconciliation, conflict resolution, and sustainable development. He served as Specialist Advisor to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in the UK Parliament (2016-17) and is an Advisory Board Member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tunisia, British Parliament. Prior to this, Julian worked in consultancy and lived in Syria as a freelance journalist and studied Arabic in 2008-09.