Alona Kotova
Suffolk ESOL Hub Coordinator
Meet the Strategic Migration Partnership Team
The region’s hub for cross-sector migration work, providing strategic leadership, consultation and project management, plus support with comms, data sharing, advice, and practical assistance.
Parco Chan
Project Administrator EON & Regional Hong Kong Hub
Humeira Yaqub
Senior Policy Officer (Resettlement and Ukraine Lead)
Gosia Strona
Head of Strategic Migration Partnership
Gosia coordinates the work of the East of England Strategic Migration Partnership. Together with her team, she works with stakeholders in the statutory, voluntary, private and community sectors to provide a strategic leadership, advisory and coordination
Gill Searl
Project Manager (EON)
Yasser Rezvani
Regional ESOL Coordinator
Karen Lowes
SMP Business Support Officer
Ferzana Kusair
High Skills Employment Advisor & Employer Liaison
Helen Hancock
Senior Policy Officer
Louise Gooch
Projects Manager
Katie Chiu
Project Administrator (EON)
Jo Slater
Executive Assistant
The Strategic Migration Partnership (SMP) Team is the central point in the region for collaboration between central and local government and other key agencies across all sectors on migration issues. Their role includes strategic leadership, consultation, coordination and project management of key migration programmes alongside communications, information and data sharing, practical assistance and advice.