Request a refugee expert

There's a seat at your table.

Tell us who it's for, and we'll help you fill it. R-SEAT works with refugee advocates and experts across regions — the form below tells us enough to know who to recommend.

A refugee expert speaks into a microphone at a conference table beside the R-SEAT banner. — In the roomA refugee expert briefing the room at R-SEAT's policy convening. Nairobi, 2025.

The room

What is the event, and when does it happen?

Event or engagement

Date

Location

How it happens

A short summaryWhat is being discussed, and who else is in the room?

The seat

What are you asking someone to do, and what should they bring to it?

The expertise you needThe subject, not the person — we will find the person.

What role would they play?

Anything particular you are looking for?

Optional, and worth saying only if it genuinely matters to the room.

Say more, if you selected any

What you can offer

The practical side, asked up front rather than discovered later.

R-SEAT asks this before making an introduction, not after. Lived expertise is work, and someone should know what is on offer before they are asked to give their time to it. A no is an answer; a silence is not.

Is a fee or honorarium available?

If travel is needed

When do you need an answer?

Your name

Your organisation

Anything elseA concept note, an agenda, a link — whatever helps.

The request, as it stands

Your organisation is looking for a role on a subject, for an event in a place on a date.

Fee and travel appear here once you reach the last step.

Every connection is a thread.
Every thread ends at a seat.

Rings of seats, woven into the cloth

Looking for an organisation instead?

The Connection Map is the other direction.

This page asks who should fill a seat you already have. The map answers the opposite question — which organisations are out there, and how to reach them.

Open the Connection Map