Mutlu studied cinema at Marmara University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and has built a career crafting strategic narratives across domains. He steered communications for GIZ projects, led campaigns for CARE, and managed cross-cultural teams for RET across West Asia, East and Central Africa, and Türkiye. He founded SEGMENTE on the conviction that technical expertise and communicating results cannot be isolated disciplines. He works to establish shared languages of credibility. His strength lies in narrative strategy, translating grassroots achievements into stories, developing multimedia assets, learning-management systems, and digital toolkits. His pursuits include strategic communications, documentary filmmaking, and marketing assets that ensure long-term legibility and authority.

Nawshin leads SEGMENTE’s gender and care economy work. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Dhaka, finishing first in her undergraduate class, and an MA in the Analysis and Design of Social Protection Systems from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University as a DAAD Helmut Schmidt Scholar, with a dissertation on social services for Bangladeshi women migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia. Her work runs from unpaid care and labour-market participation to workplace practice: she conducted UNRISD’s evidence review on the care economy in South Asia, contributed to Bangladesh’s National Human Development Report with UNDP, and led private-sector research for the IFC-supported Respectful Workplaces in Bangladesh study. She researched knowledge use in development bureaucracies at IDOS in Bonn, and teaches governance, gender and sustainable development at United International University. She works in Bengali, English and German.

Anas leads research design and quantitative analysis at SEGMENTE. He is a social protection researcher working on labour markets, informal employment, gender and migration across the Middle East and North Africa. He holds an MA in the Analysis and Design of Social Protection Systems and is trained in data analytics, and he works in Python across the full arc from raw dataset to policy brief. With the ILO Regional Office for Arab States, he cleaned and analysed labour, migration and social protection data for the ILO’s 2023 regional mapping of migrant workers’ access to social security in the Gulf states.

For the Asfari Institute at the American University of Beirut, he co-authored forthcoming research on women’s informal employment and their access to social protection in Egypt. For Alfanar, he assessed how social enterprises could strengthen social protection in Egypt and Jordan, and prepared a strategy paper for senior leadership on investment pathways. Earlier, at the International Trade Union Confederation, he wrote an economic briefing on migrants’ access to social protection and drafted the progressive taxation section of its Beyond GDP report.

Brian is a social protection specialist whose work centres on poverty alleviation, universal basic income, informal economy policy and disability inclusion across Sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a PhD in Governance, with doctoral research on public support for universal basic income grant designs in South Africa, as well as an MA in Social Protection and degrees in Politics and Public Management and Governance. He coordinates an international M.Sc. programme in Social Protection in Germany, where he teaches social transfers, and runs a UNICEF-supported short course on the inclusion of persons with disabilities.

As a GIZ consultant, he co-developed a Social Protection Certificate curriculum for Malawi. Earlier, at the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, he worked on a pilot that linked the Child Support Grant to business-skills support for women running informal enterprises. He also co-authored the City of Johannesburg’s Informal/Second Economy Policy. He has written chapters on the basic income grant for the Handbook of Social Protection Systems (Edward Elgar).

Bilal advises SEGMENTE on climate and adaptive social protection. A DAAD Helmut Schmidt Scholar, he holds an MA in Analysis and Design of Social Protection Systems from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, with high honours, and BA and MA degrees in International Relations from the University of Karachi. With Oxford Policy Management, he led the Gates Foundation-funded Payvand feasibility study on childhood immunisation in Sindh, designed the vulnerability index for KfW’s work on women’s economic inclusion in Karachi’s informal settlements, and contributed to a €27 million KfW adaptive social protection investment. He leads a UNICEF-funded synthesis on children’s climate vulnerability and advised the Global Shield against Climate Risks. Earlier, with the Government of Sindh, he led a non-formal education programme reaching over 15,000 out-of-school learners, mostly women and girls, and coordinated a USD 3 million youth employment project with UNDP. He works in Urdu, English and German.