Geza Tessenyi is the initiator and main designer of the Public Opinion Platform (POP) and founding President of The Intercivil Society of London. Earlier, he was founder and first President of the Intercultural Leadership School, Rome, and Head of Refugee Law and Secretary of the Committee on Asylum, Refugees and Stateless Persons at the Council of Europe. Geza is Hungarian and Dutch national, studied law in Budapest and the Hague, and followed executive courses on refugees (Oxford) and on leadership (Harvard KSG). His projects have earned patronages from three Presidents of the European Parliament from different political groups.