Priyali Sur

Priyali Sur serves as a Senior Fellow with Refugees International. She is a highly experienced development professional with nearly two decades of expertise spanning refugee protection and rights, advocacy, social safeguards, journalism, and strategic communications. Her work has focused on advancing the protection and inclusion of displaced populations across Europe, Africa, and South Asia. She has designed…

Comfort Siodlarz is the Director of Finance and Accounting at Refugees International. Comfort specializes in GAAP compliance, foundation and government grant management, and international development finance. She has over two decades of experience supporting national and global nonprofit operations and has implemented programs funded by USAID, DOS, USDA, DFID, UNHCR and several foundations. She holds an…

Philip Winder joined the Refugees International board in 2024. He currently serves as CEO of Polygon Investment Management, a private fund management firm, which he founded in 2002. Previously, he led the Middle East team at Schroder Investment Management, where he oversaw in excess of $3 billion of client assets. He also serves as a…

Ai Weiwei joined the Refugees International board in 2022. He is renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today’s geopolitical world. From architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Mr. Weiwei uses a wide range of mediums as expressions of new ways for his audiences to examine society and its…

Augustin Ntabaganyimana joined the Refugees International in 2020. A Rwandan refugee who sought refuge in the Congo and was deeply impacted by the conflict in that country, he is currently serving as Executive Director for the Family Investment Administration at the Maryland Department of Human Services. He is a dedicated leader with over 20 years…

Michele Balfour Nathoo joined the Refugees International board in 2024. From 2014 through 2025, Michele was a Principal at JOSS Realty Partners, a private equity investor in commercial and residential real estate with assets in Washington, DC; Philadelphia; Boston; Napa; and Silicon Valley. Ms. Balfour was a corporate attorney for Clifford Chance focusing on cross…

Mark Meiners joined the Refugees International board in 2024. He is a wellness professional engaged in philanthropy and activism. Born and raised in the Midwest, he is a longtime resident of New York, where he moved to study at New York University, graduating with a B.A in art history in 1999. During a period of…

Tom Malinowski joined the Refugees International board in 2023. He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the McCain Institute. He previously served two terms in the House of Representatives, after winning election in 2018 as a Democrat in New Jersey’s historically Republican 7th Congressional District. He was Vice Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…

Greg Lewis joined the Refugees International board in 2024. He advises companies facing complex financial and operational challenges.  He is currently Head of Special Situations at Princeton Capital Advisors and serves as a Senior Advisor to Ankura Consulting Group, focused on turnaround and restructuring situations. He previously worked for FTI Consulting, where he executed strategies…

Rajaie Batniji, MD, PhD, is a physician and entrepreneur passionate about improving care delivery. As co-founder and CEO at Waymark, Dr. Batniji leads a team that is catalyzing improvement in access and outcomes for people with Medicaid benefits through technology-enabled community care. Waymark partners with leading Medicaid health plans, major health systems, and federally qualified…