My name is Hamed Ajab and I am a hopeful individual with the aim to improve democratic processes via economic and financial reform. I am originally from Afghanistan but have lived the majority of my life in Saudi Arabia as the son of Afghan immigrants who fled Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion. I have spent all my life living in different places but never feeling like I ever belonged as I was always deprived of the most fundamental democratic rights and this led to fight for my rights and reinstate them. However, this was not a possibility in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia—which are both countries notorious for their lack of human rights and disregard for democratic principles. Hence, I went to continue my education in Poland and since then I have directed my vision at educating people about their rights and theorising on how our current understanding of democracy could be developed.