Marina Brizar was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Due to the Balkan Civil War, she migrated to Australia as a refugee with her family in 1995. She is an Australian qualified immigration lawyer and has been recognized by the Law Council of Australia with an award for Young Migration Lawyer of the Year; the Women Lawyer’s Associated with an award for Woman Lawyer of the Lawyer of the Year – Up and Coming; and the AFR who named her a ‘Women of Influence’.  In 2018, Marina featured in the SBS documentary ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’. She was partnered with Senator Jacqui Lambie and spent time in Syria.  In 2019, Marina completed a Churchill Fellowship where she conceived of “Displaced Talent Mobility”, and in 2020 led the implementation of this pilot in the UK where she is based as the UK and Europe Director of Talent Beyond Boundaries.