Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol

Olivia co-founded the Work Rights Centre in 2016, when the charity was a handful of volunteers based out of Wembley Library. Over the years, she has led the charity’s transformation from grassroots project to a leading advocate for migrant’s rights. She is responsible for strategy development, ensuring the organisation has the vision, resources, and reputation to deliver on its mission.

A trained anthropologist, Olivia became interested in employment justice while researching for her PhD at the University of Oxford, where she conducted an ethnography of Romanian migrants' trajectories into precarious jobs in London. 

Olivia is the organisation's key spokesperson and is available for media interviews.  

Languages spoken: Romanian and English