Our external consultants provide specialist knowledge and guidance that strengthen Universal Truth’s initiatives.

Their expertise ensures our work is practical, culturally informed, and rooted in lived experience.

We welcome individuals and organisations who want to contribute their skills, expertise, or time to support our mission to end forced marriage, honour-based abuse, and gender-based violence, and to create safer, more inclusive communities.

NIGARA MIRDAD OMAR

Nigara Mirdad Omar is a former Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Afghanistan in Warsaw. She previously served as Deputy Director General in the Third Political Department and has held diplomatic postings in Paris and Geneva.

She is a seasoned Afghan diplomat with extensive experience serving in several key positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is also a fellow researcher on human rights and women’s rights in Afghanistan at Poznań University in Poland.

Ms. Omar is the founder of the Afghanistan Female Diplomats Network and served as a member of the Afghan delegation to the CEDAW Committee, contributing to the presentation of Afghanistan’s 2025 State Report.

Dr. Doirean Wilson is a distinguished academic, thought leader, and award-winning diversity expert with a career spanning higher education, human resource management, and sustainability leadership. She is Associate Professor in Sustainability Management and Director of the Academy of Policing & Criminal Justice at the University of East London where she is also one of three Sustainability Champions. Previously, she was Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at Middlesex University.

Dr Wilson is UK Country Chair for the G100 Club’s Higher Education & Industry Connect Wing, a global network of women leaders shaping policy for institutions including the UN, AU, and EU. In 2024, she joined the Advisory Stakeholder Board of the Police Race Action Plan and was commissioned by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), to undertake a diversity project, drawing on her inclusive work, to promote the MPS’s cultural awareness. This work is embedded as a core aspect of mandatory training for all new recruits.

Ranked 7th in the 2024 HR Most Influential Top Thinkers List, Dr Wilson has received numerous awards including the British Empire Medal, the UN Global Peace Council’s London Award for Excellence, and multiple diversity, leadership, and education honours. She is also a commissioned artist, former journalist and TV presenter, lyricist, and business consultant, celebrated for advancing inclusivity, equity, and sustainable leadership.

DR. DOIREAN WILSON BEM

RICHARD MOORE

Richard is Scotland Lead for Pilotlight – an organisation dedicated to amplifying the delivery of charities, businesses and individuals.

Since 1996, Pilotlight has helped over 1000 charities fulfil their remit of creating and delivering impactful programmes for social enterprises, charities and global business partners - all for social good.

Of Universal Truth's founder Nyla Khan he says: ‘It’s rare to come across such a unique and inspiring person so driven to create change in such a challenging and critical space as forced marriage and community coercion. Meeting Nyla inspired me to want to get involved and support what Universal Truth is seeking to do in changing conversations around Forced Marriage and diversity and to help Nyla achieve those goals via Universal Truth.’