Tosin Adenrele has worked as a Global Mobility Professional for over ten years with worldwide companies across multiple industry sectors such as Financial services, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical and Technology.

Since Tosin began her career as a Global Mobility Analyst, focusing on the EMEA Region, she has become known throughout the Global Mobility Industry as a “problem solver” who ensures operational excellence to Global Mobility Programs.

Tosin subsequently undertook contractual roles as a Global Mobility Specialist and Lead Consultant before launching her own Expat Consultancy providing a wide range of Expertise and Project Delivery.

Tosin’s specialism is the centralisation of the Change Management, Compensation Analysis, Global Mobility Function, HR Transformation, Stakeholder Engagement and Talent Management.

A seasoned mobility professional with almost 20 years of experience, Ezeibe is the Head of Global Mobility and Immigration at Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company. His team’s remit includes traditional assignments, global immigration, cross-border remote working, permanent transfers, business travel compliance and some domestic mobility.

Ezeibe has a legal background, having previously practiced immigration law, and has also worked in the IT consultancy and advertising industries. Based in London with his wife, two children and a little dog, Ezeibe has also lived and worked in Nigeria and the USA. When not creating a competitive advantage for his business stakeholders, Ezeibe enjoys playing the piano, singing and gaming.

Carmen studied economics and social sciences at the University of Heidelberg. She then worked in international companies in the field of international taxation advisory from 2009.

Carmen moved to the insurance industry in 2021. Since 2021, she has been the lead for Cross-Border Employment for Allianz SE in Munich.

Maxine Ansah is Kearney’s Global Director of Talent Mobility and Tax based in London.

Maxine has significant expertise and experience in transforming and managing Global Mobility programs including policy and process design, expatriate and employment tax advisory, immigration and vendor management. Prior to her current role, she worked at the BBC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and KPMG. She was named one of Top 100 Global Mobility Diversity Champion in 2023.

With particular emphasis on assignment cost optimisation strategies and short-term assignment tax compliance covering over 78 countries, Maxine has been instrumental in re-designing the Global Mobility and tax program at Kearney where international experiences are at the core of the firm’s value proposition to its employees.

Maxine is a Global Ombudsperson at Kearney and a member of the International Ombuds Association.

She is passionate about empowering women and promoting racial diversity. She leads Black@Kearney Europe and is a Trustee at Dua-pa. She is also a speaker on racial diversity.

Maxine earned her MBA at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

Emma recently joined Stripe as Talent Mobility Business Partner covering APAC and EMEA. Emma joins Stripe following a 10-year tenure at Electronic Arts as Talent Mobility Manager for Europe, and more recently, as a People Partner for the UK business.

Emma's love for mobility stems from her own expat and international experiences in the US and Nigeria.

Lilly Burggraaf is a global Human Resources leader with over 25 years of experience across biopharma, banking, and professional services. She currently serves as VP Human Resources at VectorY Therapeutics, where she collaborates with the Management Team to drive organizational development, scalability, and culture in a rapidly expanding life sciences company.

Prior to this, Lilly held senior HR leadership roles at uniQure Biopharma, ICON Plc, and ABN AMRO Bank, where she shaped HR strategies, talent programs, and organizational change initiatives.

She is passionate about linking human capital strategies to business success and fostering inclusive workplaces.

Victoria is the Global Mobility Director at Thomson Reuters. Previous roles include two years at The Boston Consulting Group in their Mobility Tax function and eight years at Deloitte in International Assignment Services, before joining Thomson Reuters in May 2015.

Victoria holds a BA (Hons) degree in Spanish and Portuguese and is a Chartered Tax Advisor, holding ATT and CTA qualifications. She also took a sabbatical in 2012 to spend 4 months working as an interpreter and project manager for the youth and sustainable development charity Raleigh International in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

David has worked in the immigration field for 18 years and is currently immigration Principal at Infosys. David leads a team of immigration professionals supporting deployment of Infosys talent into and within the EMEA region.

Previously he was part of the immigration team at Deloitte, advising clients across a range of industries. He began his career in the UK Home Office, Immigration and Nationality Directorate (now UK Visas and Immigration).

Having spent 15 years as an Employment Lawyer, I moved into the Global Mobility world in 2021 starting in a strategy and transformation role before being appointed as BAE Systems’ Head of Global and Domestic Mobility Services in 2022.

Being new to the industry, I have been able to explore the current ways of working alongside challenging my team and my suppliers to revisit the status quo. Looking at the mobility function, it is clear to see that it is often put into the ‘too hard’ bucket which can impact our collective aspirations for the service.

I am intent on continuing to challenge this mind-set. Mobility is complex, but nothing is ‘too hard’. It just needs breaking down, analysing logically and building back up. We have an ambitious transformation journey ahead of us within BAE Systems but as a team we are looking forward to the challenge and the rewards we can deliver for our employees and their families at the end of it.

Pieter currently leads the HR for Bayer in UK & Ireland and is responsible for the EMEA Country HR Heads community and HR Talent Development across EMEA – both roles give him excellent experience outside of mobility and experience being a customer of mobility.

Previously. Pieter has many years of experience starting in the big four focused on UK, US tax before moving to Switzerland and Germany and supporting major mobility programs with various expatriate compliance challenges.

This was followed by a move inhouse with major Life Science companies contributing and leading various initiatives from enhanced compliance to developing stronger partnerships across the vendor landscape and driving best in class expatriate experiences.

Dr Johan de Kam is a fellow with the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the University of Warwick, UK. Johan’s research interests focus on organisational learning, networks and sustainability in relation to the ways in which Global Mobility is structured and utilised.

His professional interests are in bringing together industry leaders to take critical, reflective and collaborative approaches to GM and Sustainability.

As Head of Global Mobility for Thoughtworks, my focus is global collaboration and enabling talent growth. My expertise lies in strategic policy development and organizational transformation, notably leading the transition of our mobility function from a decentralized model to a cohesive global structure.

I believe global mobility is about empowering individuals to embrace new experiences, build diverse leadership, and cultivate a deeper understanding of our interconnected world, always with empathy for the human behind the goal.

My current role is Global Policy and Process owner for Global Mobility at Volvo Car Corporation. User experience and vendor management are two areas that I focus a lot on in my role, as we strive for world class global mobility support.

Previously I have also worked within the Global Mobility team as product owner/project leader to drive improvements and implementations in collaboration with stakeholders within and outside the company.

I started at Volvo Cars in 2015 but have worked in the Global Mobility field since 2006, as Global Mobility specialist, immigration specialist and relocation consultant.

Katarzyna is a tax advisor, lawyer, professional legal mediator registered at the Polish Court in Warsaw, judge at the Disciplinary Supreme Court of the Polish Chamber of Tax Association and a senior mobility manager at PwC in Central Eastern Europe (CEE).

Katarzyna graduated from the Faculty of Law of Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the Faculty of European Law of University Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego in Warsaw. In 2010 she got a doctorate in tax law at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Katarzyna is an author of a number of publications regarding, among others, indirect tax, international taxation of natural persons. She was a member of the legal experts group working on changes into excise duty legislation in Poland. She has been cooperating with Polish universities as a lecturer in tax law for many years.

She joined PwC in 2005 as a tax advisor after working for a few years for Ernst & Young. Katarzyna participated in a number of complex projects for clients operating among others in pharmaceutical, chemical and energy sectors. Over the past 10 years, at the heart of her approach is a commitment to different global mobility initiatives to share and gain knowledge in this area.

As a PwC CEE Senior Mobility Manager she is responsible for PwC top management international relocations between PwC companies, drafting and implementing PwC CEE international mobility policies. Her role is also to act as a project manager for PwC staff short term mobility initiatives.

Helen Frew is the Director of Permits Foundation, a not for profit corporate initiative, advocating globally on behalf of employers in order to improve work access for partners of highly-skilled international employees.

Helen has over 20 years of public affairs experience spent in the UK, Brussels and The Hague, representing organisations’ interests at government level.

Gill Gordon is Chair of Permits Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit organisation campaigning globally to improve work permit regulations to allow partners of mobile employees to gain employment during an international assignment.

Gill spent most of her career at SLB (previously Schlumberger), where she held a number of senior global HR roles including approx. 12 years in international assignments in France, Germany and the USA. She started her career at Ford Motor Company in the UK.

Beth is currently the global mobility operations lead for Diageo, responsible for vendor management, process optimisation and policy.

Beth has over 20 years of experience in global mobility with roles in operations, supply chain, strategy and global mobility transformation. She started her career at Procter & Gamble as an international new hire herself based in Brussels, where she lived and worked for 2 years before transferring with the company back to the UK.

Since then, Beth has worked for several other large organisations such as EY, AstraZeneca and Mott MacDonald where she again had the opportunity to work abroad and spent an amazing 5 years in Singapore as an APAC regional manager.

Andrii is an established professional with over 10 years of experience in expat management and global mobility. Based in London, he currently leads Global Mobility and Cross-Border Working programs at Luxoft.

Throughout his career, Andrii has developed and implemented global mobility policies, optimized expatriate compensation, and created efficient operational processes across multiple regions.

Andrii has successfully managed relocations to over 28 countries from more than 80 source locations, handling over 6,000 international relocation cases since 2014.

Dr. Vicky Haji-Ghassemi is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at Regents University London, teaching within HR, Management and Organisations. Dr. Haji-Ghassemi completed an MSc in International Business Management, conducting a comparative study of the pre-departure cross-cultural training of British and Japanese expatriates.

For her PhD, she explored the extent to which expatriates, face-to-face interaction and physical mobility can be replaced by a ‘mixed-economy’ of ‘flexpatriates’ and communication technologies in SMEs.

Dr. Haji-Ghassemi has presented at conferences covering various topics such as the traditional and modern 'flexpatriate', the role of trust, social capital and networking in relation to the performance of the internationalisation of SMEs, as well as exploring the dynamics and complexities of the dark sides of trust in SMEs within ‘Strong Ties’ and ‘Weak Ties’ concerning networks, social capital and partnerships during internationalisation’.

Dr. Haji-Ghassemi is currently conducting research on the impact of Covid-19 on the performance of expatriates and ‘flexpatriates’, as well as virtual assignments and how organisations need to engage and retain their global talent.

Patrick currently serves as the Group Head of Expatriate Management at Assicurazioni Generali, an Italian-based insurance company renowned for its strong presence in Europe and emerging markets like Latin America and Asia.

His career journey began as a tax advisor at a small tax boutique, where he delved into a diverse array of topics, ranging from corporate tax and VAT. Over time, he honed his expertise and specialised in personal income taxes while working at a major Big 4 firm.

Subsequently, Patrick joined Assicurazioni Generali as the Group Head of Expatriate Management. In this role, he concentrates on crafting policies, overseeing active inbound and outbound cases related to Italy and executives on assignment worldwide. Notably, he has recently played a prominent role in designing flexible policies tailored to diverse needs, collaborating with various stakeholders including Talent and Group Tax Departments.

Patrick's academic achievements include an MSc in Fiscal Economics and an LLM in Tax Law, both earned from Tilburg University (the Netherlands).

Embarking on the first decade of her career in global tax and HR consulting at PwC, Selina undertook several client secondments which ignited her passion for global specialist HR work in the corporate world.

Selina subsequently undertook Global Mobility leadership positions at PepsiCo and Lloyd’s Register before progressing into broader Senior Group Director positions at Worley and Lumentum with global ownership of Benefits, Global Mobility, Expatriate Tax / Compliance and Strategic HR projects for both organizations.

Selina became a global freelance consultant in March 2025, and is currently specialising in Global Benefits and Mobility in conjunction with her voluntary roles in the industry.

A law graduate with a Masters in Business Economics, Selina holds professional qualifications in Tax, International HR, Global Benefits and Global Mobility.

Selina is also a proud recipient of multiple team and individual industry awards and passionate about her voluntary roles, contributing her time as a board advisor, speaker, author of thought leadership and judge on several global industry award panels.

Seasoned Global Mobility professional with almost 20 years’ experience gained from various industries. Seema has a strong ability to support senior stakeholders, cost management, strategic policy development and vendor management.

Seema has worked across all regions throughout her career with employers from the IT, Pharmaceutical services, Legal and Energy sectors”. Seema is currently at Drax Power Limited where she took on the role to create a GM function through the introduction of policies, vendors and internal processes.

Sarah has over 20 years’ experience as a global mobility professional, successfully managing relationships with mobility, procurement, human resources, operations and finance teams, as well as with assignees.

Sarah’s early career included Global Account Management roles for clients in the finance, pharmaceutical and professional services sectors while with a relocation management company in France, Switzerland and the UK.

Several years’ experience as a specialist head-hunter for roles in provider and in-house global mobility teams across the globe helped her establish a strong understanding of the importance of having the right team in place at the right time to support employees.

Since joining AZ in 2020, Sarah has collaborated on wide-ranging projects including the impact of Brexit; responding to challenges of Covid-19; automating vendor integrations; the RFP and onboarding of a global relocation provider; as acting as Authorising Officer in the UK and doubling the global operational team supporting operations of relocation-related benefits.

With an MA Cantab in French and Russian, working in global mobility has matched Sarah’s personal desire to work in an international environment and to apply her language and intercultural communication skills.

My name is Peter Knight. I am a Senior Global Mobility professional with 18 years of experience, half of that working in dynamic and complicated global businesses as an in-house expert helping them manage the acquisition and movement of their global talent.

I specialise in the continuous improvement of Global Mobility functions and have several transformation projects as well as supporting the ongoing complexities of moving key personnel and enabling global workforce strategy to be implemented in the most effective way.

Fisla is the Global Mobility Manager at Linesight, an Irish construction consultancy with 38 offices in 20+ countries, delivering professional services and strategic support to sectors including data centres, life sciences, and large-scale commercial developments. An expatriate at heart, she has lived and worked in six countries and has nearly 15 years’ experience in global mobility across multiple industries.

She holds a MSc in Development Management and previously worked in the humanitarian sector, focusing on refugees, internally displaced persons, and post-conflict development.

As a member of Unilever’s Global Mobility leadership team, Kate is responsible for helping define and deliver the GM function’s global strategic objectives, including driving key transformation initiatives and acting as global lead for strategic partnerships/vendor management.

Alongside her global responsibilities, Kate is regional GM lead for Europe and manages a team based across the UK and the Netherlands. She has been part of Unilever’s GMLT since the start of 2022, with her prior experience including a series of HR generalist and employee relations roles.

Diogo has more than 15 years of experience in Global Mobility Management, Strategy & Operations and wide Human Resources experience, supporting and leading multinational teams, implementing HR processes and transforming Global Mobility framework in Global Companies.

Expert in implementing Global Mobility culture, developing and structuring teams. Wide International experience (Angola, Belgium, Poland and Romania) leading and managing International Projects, in the areas of transformation, process integration and strategic consultancy.

Claire has worked in Global Mobility for over 20 years, across several companies and organisations including PowerGen International, EY, Cartus, RBS, ARUP and Electronic Arts (EA).

Claire has been with EA for 11 years and has been responsible for moves within the APAC and Europe Regions during her tenure. Claire is currently the APAC Mobility Lead and responsible for Policy design & implementation.

Jacky Morkham is a seasoned Global Mobility leader with nearly two decades of experience spanning both Relocation Management and in-house roles. Jacky has led strategic Mobility programmes across EMEA and APAC, driving policy innovation, compliance, and employee experience.

With a career that has taken her from the UK to South Africa, Singapore, and the Philippines, Jacky brings a dual perspective—both as a Mobility professional and as someone who has experienced relocation first-hand.

This global lens informs her empathetic, strategic approach to Mobility programme design and delivery. Jacky is passionate about continuous improvement and shaping inclusive, future-ready Mobility strategies.

Narendra is a Global Mobility Leader in Cognizant, a Fortune 200 global professional services company that help clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Narendra has worked in multiple technology companies with roles covering Talent Management, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition and Global Mobility.

Narendra is based out of Netherlands and is part of the Global Mobility team. He is responsible for the global design and deployment of international assignment models and relocation services that enables the right associate experience as well as meets company’s objectives on cost, compliances and time objectives.

Petya Pavlova is an experienced Global Mobility Manager with a strong background in managing immigration processes across EMEA and globally for major blue-chip clients and stakeholders.

Currently managing the global mobility program at Environmental Resources Management, based in Dubai, UAE, she focuses on optimizing talent placement to meet business needs while ensuring compliance and risk management.

She is multilingual, highly client-focused, and adept at building robust policies and support structures within complex regulatory environments.

Klaudyna is the HR Specialist, Global Mobility at DSV – Global Transport and Logistics. Currently responsible for end-to-end handling of long-term assignments within the whole DSV Group. Klaudyna graduated law and international relations at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

I have over 18 years of work experience in Global companies including two of the big four accounting firms. I then moved to the Energy industry where I am today. I have led, managed and consulted on global projects covering all topics within the Global workforce mobility arena.

I have extensive experience in running projects from RFPs, to implementation of technology as well as enhancing the employee experience and position Global Mobility & Business Travel Compliance as a strategic partner to the business.

Cat Rollings is a Senior Director with over 30 years’ experience in the HR and Payroll Industries. Having worked for many years for vendor organisations she moved to WorldPay shortly before it was acquired by FIS, 5 years ago.

Now working in a strategic oversight role responsible for Global Mobility and Global Payroll, for over 65K colleagues, she supports the teams with their vision for the future of the services. Focusing on automation, the advent of AI and how the landscape will change in 2024 and beyond, starting the journey by fixing the foundations, process remapping and change evaluation.

Mark is part of the Global Mobility leadership for Cognizant, a global professional services company that is transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. From his time with the Big 4 and subsequent in-house roles, he has a wide range of experiences covering expatriate taxes and global mobility strategy, policies and processes.

Mark’s team has responsibility for enabling the deployment of colleagues on international assignments & cross-border business travel for delivering services to clients, so a key challenge is to identify and implement solutions that enable the business while also managing risk and compliance obligations.

Rafaela Schleifer is the International Mobility Lead on EMEA Region for Air Products where she overseas Global Mobility, Expat Tax and Immigration programs. She also manages global relationship with Tax and Immigration vendors.

Rafaela has a legal background holding a Master’s Degree in Tax Law, with more than 15 years of experience in Global Mobility compliance and tax advisory. She worked as manager in Brazil and in the UK, experiencing herself an international assignment.

Rafaela gained her knowledge working previously in consultancy and external auditors (PwC & EY) supporting global corporate clients across the globe.

Rafaela is a passionate global mobility professional who loves building relationships, connecting with people & partnering with the business to deliver through collaboration.

After an initial short excursion into journalism, Daniel studied business administration followed by a career path that took him through various vehicle related industries before taking the position of client consultant and international relations manager at Jacobs Gruppe, one of Germany’s largest car dealership networks and part of Penske Automotive.

With his ability to adapt to different situations and his interest in global mobility and other cultures, Daniel continually supports HR as international assignment specialist, assisting in the management of their international assignees & projects.

Mihai has 10 years of experience in the global mobility area as an in-house corporate mobility professional, with large and medium size programs.

He has led global mobility teams delivering services for over 1,500 expatriates and is now leading the mobility program at Kellogg. He’s an advocate for employee choice and flexibility in mobility policies.

Since the consolidation of the global mobility activities in Kellogg’s Bucharest Global Business Services Center, he has been managing relocation vendors and identifying technology solutions for increased efficiencies, improving customer satisfaction and achieving greater transparency for global mobility stakeholders.

Senior global mobility and immigration leader with extensive experience transforming, developing and running strategic high volume global mobility, immigration and business travel programs at a range of diverse companies and industries.

Across a 15-year period, Soren has worked in industries ranging from Oil and Gas with BG Group/Shell, to Pharma with Bayer to tech and AI with TikTok and now Databricks.

Philip began his career as a mobility tax advisor with PwC, joining American Express as Manager for Global Mobility Taxation in 2004. Philip led the American Express Global Mobility Tax team, adding Global Employment Tax Governance, Strategy & Operations to his portfolio in 2014.

Philip has developed a deep understanding of HR, Finance & Legal matters across employee & global mobility ecosystems supporting the development of Mobility, Business Travel and Flexible Working Policies and was a key member of the team who won the 2012 EMMA for “Best Mobility Program in the Financial Sector”.

Under his leadership the Employment Tax function at American Express migrated from Finance into HR in 2019. He subsequently led the transformation of the function, establishing a global operating model, developing and implementing new controls and processes in partnership with a single global

Miriam is an international Mobility specialist at NN Group, which is a company in the financial services industry. In this position she supports NN Group in creating a truly international working environment, while ensuring compliance in all relevant areas (e.g. income tax, corporate tax, social security, pensions, immigration, labour law).

Miriam’s background is in tax law and she has worked e.g. in the US and the UK, both in the consulting- and corporate realm.

Her personal drivers are to continuously innovate and improve, and to create an international working environment that suits both the employer and employee.

Maaike van den Broek is the Head of Global Mobility at Booking.com. She is an experienced global mobility leader who has worked in global mobility in-house leadership roles, in the mobility consultancy field and on the relocation services provider side.

In those different roles she has gained a wealth of experience with all different aspects of global mobility and with leading global mobility teams. Maaike holds a Master’s Degree in Communication from the University of Amsterdam and is ERC certified.

A seasoned individual with a wealth of experience in global mobility at a senior level gained over nearly 20 years in a global organisation with a FTSE top 5 ranking.

Susanna Warner-Corbacho has been working in the Global Mobility and Human Resources area for over 20 years.

She joined Schneider Electric in 2017 to lead the Global Mobility function and expanded her role from 2021 to cover Continuous Listening and Engagement.

Prior to joining Schneider Electric, Susanna held other HR roles, setting up an internal Talent Acquisition function leading Career development for support functions, as well as leading the Global Mobility function in 2 other French multinationals.

A British national, she relocated to Paris early in her career during 2000 to become a tax consultant with Arthur Andersen.

Janice is a local West country girl, born in Taunton, Somerset and has worked for Leonardo since leaving school, Leonardo is a global company in the Aerospace, Defence and Security sector with an integrated offer of high-tech solutions for both military requirements and civil applications.

Janice has spent 39 years with Leonardo in the UK and 20+ in Global Mobility Janice is responsible for all assignments worldwide and now supporting the changing landscape for Business Travellers and has recently implemented Business Travel Compliance Services for all UK business travel.

Louise has spent over 25 years working in Assignee Services and Global Mobility and is currently Global Head of Global Mobility for KPMG International. Louise leads a team providing governance, structure and GM strategy across the KPMG global network, and support to over 250 Global Mobility professionals, ensuring the delivery of GM services to all assigned KPMG employees and Partners.

Additionally, she sits on the Global People Leadership Team supporting other KPMGI Centres of Excellence. Louise has a particular interest in inclusive mobility and challenging the myths and complexities of international assignments for employees who would otherwise traditionally self-select out of assignment opportunities.