• Cultural anthropology and development
• Facilitation and community mobilization
• Diaspora mobilization
• International law and human rights advocate

Mohammed Badran is a member of the Network for Refugee Voices (NRV), and he is the founder of Syrian Volunteers in the Netherlands (SYVNL), a refugee-led network with more than 600 volunteers helping the elderly with household tasks, caring for disabled children and bringing new ideas by and for newcomers.

Mohammed is originally from Damascus, Syria, where he studied interior design at Damascus University; he started to receive threats because of his humanitarian work with the Syria Trust and UNHCR, which eventually forced him to leave.

Mohammed resettled in the Netherlands in 2013, where is currently completing his studies in cultural anthropology and development sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Mohammed is a Steering Committee member of the Global Summit of Refugees that took place in Geneva on the 25th and 26th June 2018. The Summit was a history-making event, bringing together 72 representatives from forcibly displaced populations from all over the globe for the first time to discuss, plan and organize their efforts on influencing global refugee policies.

In 2017, Badran, along with two other refugee leaders launched the G-100 initiative, a movement that is working to change the current narrative on refugees and refugee experiences across Europe. The G100 aims at creating an interactive space for dialogue between newcomers and locals Europeans in the host communities in order to foster dialogue, find solutions, and make refugees’ voice heard in decision-making processes.