Umutcan Yüksel is a humanitarian professional and researcher specialising in migration governance, protection programming, humanitarian funding dynamics, and the political economy of EU externalisation. He is the creator of PRISM (Protection, Risk & Impact Severity Monitor), and previously served as a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, researching donor decision-making in humanitarian funding allocation under severe resource constraints. He is pursuing a Master's in interdisciplinary social research at the University of Lisbon, and is the founder of Integrity Consulting. From 2017 to 2022, Umutcan served as a Programme Specialist at the European Commission's DG ECHO, supporting management of the EU Facility for Refugees in Türkiye, before leading multi-million EUR portfolios at international organisations, including earthquake response operations. His work on power dynamics in humanitarian aid and migration governance has been published in various academic journals.