Tendayi Achiume is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, and a Research Associate of the African Center for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, the first woman to serve in this role since its creation. She earned her BA from Yale University and her JD from Yale Law School. She also earned a Graduate Certificate in Development Studies from Yale. Her current research focuses on the global governance of racism and xenophobia, and the legal and ethical implications of colonialism for contemporary international migration.
Emily Arnold-Fernández is Adjunct Professor for the Masters in Refugee Protection at the University of London, and the President and CEO of Asylum Access. She holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, and a BA cum laude from Pomona College.
Father Fabio Baggio has been Under-Secretary of the Refugees and Migrants Section of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development of the Vatican since 1 January 2017. He is a missionary priest of the Scalabrian Order and holds a degree in Theology and History and a Doctorate in Church History from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He has served as advisor for migrations to the Chilean Bishops’ Conference and as Director of the Department for Migration in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires and has taught in different universities in Europe, Latin America and Asia. From 2002 to 2010, he was Director of the Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC) in Quezon City (Philippines) and editor of Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. In 2010, he was appointed Director of the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI), incorporated into the Pontifical Urban University in Rome.
Leticia Calderón Chelius is a Professor and Researcher of the Instituto de Investigaciones José María Luís Mora and a member of the National Researchers System (of Mexico) and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She has a Masters on Political and Social Sciences from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a PhD in Social Sciences specialized in Political Science from FLACSO-Mexico. She has published works in the field of the Political Sociology of Migration. Her research focuses on political socialization in migration processes, migrant citizen activism, migrants’ right to vote, and contemporary migration policies. She is the founder of the network Migrantólogos.
Pablo Ceriani is Coordinator of Migration & Asylum Research and Advocacy Program, at the Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Universidad Nacional de Lanús, and the Director of the Specialization on Migration, Asylum and Human Rights at the same institution. He is the former Vice-Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families. He has served as a consultant for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on the rights of child, adolescent, and female migrants, and has consulted for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). He holds a PhD in Fundamental Rights from Universitat de València and a Masters in International Migration from the Universidad Europea de Madrid. His research focuses on Human Rights, migration, and Refugee Law. He has worked on these issues in various contexts around the world, including Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe.
Jeff Crisp is a Research Associate at the Refugees Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, an Associate Fellow in International Law at Chatham House, and a LERRN (The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network) Co-Investigator. He has held senior positions with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (Head of Policy Development and Evaluation), Refugees International (Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy) and the Global Commission on International Migration (Director of Policy and Research). He has a Masters and a PhD in African Studies from the University of Birmingham. He has first-hand experience of humanitarian operations throughout the world and has published and lectured widely on refugee and migration issues.
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Professor in Migration and Refugee Studies, Director of University College London (UCL)’s Refuge in a Moving World Research Network and Co-Director of UCL’s Migration Research Unit. She holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, a MA in International Relations from the University of New South Wales, a MSc in Gender and Development from the University of London, and a BA (Hons) and a MA in Social and Political Sciences from King’s College, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the intersections between gender, generation, and religion in experiences of and responses to conflict-induced displacement, with a particular regional focus on the Middle East. She has conducted extensive research in refugee camps and urban areas including in Algeria, Cuba, Egypt, France, Jordan, Lebanon, South Africa, Syria, Sweden, and the UK.
Amr Houdaifa is Syrian and currently resides in Curitiba, Brazil, as a refugee. He is a Lawyer and Journalist. He holds degrees in Law and Journalism from Damascus University, Syria, and a Masters in Law degree from Universidade Federal do Paraná where he is currently a doctoral candidate.
Jennifer Hyndman is Professor and currently serves as Associate Vice-President of Research at York University. She is also Past Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies there. Her research focuses on 1) conflict, human displacement, and the geopolitics of humanitarian and refugee protection; and 2) refugee settlement, participation and social inclusion in Canada. Current research projects probe how private refugee sponsorship is sustained into a 5th decade in Canadian communities; 2) the motivations of sponsors and the meanings they attach to the work they do; and 3) how sponsors who have come to Canada as resettled refugees and want to reunite with family members still at risk are discounted by the refugee resettlement program. Deconstructing the concept of ‘vulnerability’ and categories of resettlement goes some distance to exposing how these mostly racialized sponsors are underrepresented in research and policy assumptions.
Rose Jaji holds a PhD in Anthropology from Bayreuth University. She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe. She is currently Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute. Her research areas of interest are migration/refugees and conflict and peacebuilding. She has published peer-reviewed articles on migrant/refugee masculinities and femininities, refugees and social technology, identity and refugee hosting, asylum seekers and border crossing, return migration as well as gender and peacebuilding. She has participated on a number of international fora on migration/refugees. She is the author of Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration (Lexington Books, 2020).
João Carlos Jarochinski Silva is Professor at Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR) in a joint appointment at the Faculty of International Relations and the Sociedade e Fronteiras (Society and Borders) Postgraduate Programme. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Núcleo de Estudos de População ‘Elza Berquó’ (NEPO/Unicamp), and holds a PhD in Social Sciences (International Relations) from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP), and a Masters in International Law from Universidade Católica de Santos (UniSantos). He has worked with migration and refuge issues since his Master’s degree and is actively involved in the assistance and research of the Venezuelans in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.
Ulrike Krause is Junior Professor of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) and the Institute for Social Science, Osnabrück University. Her research and teaching focuses on the areas of the global refugee regime, refugee policies, humanitarianism, conflict displacement nexus, gender, gender-based violence, and knowledge production. Her recent book is entitled Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Zachary Lomo is Acting Dean of the School of Law at St Augustine International University, Uganda. He holds a LLB from Makerere University, Uganda, a LLM from Harvard Law School, and a PhD in International Law from York University. His research focuses include International Law and refugees, and post-conflict peace building.
Jane McAdam AO DPhil (Oxford University) BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (University of Sydney) is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is a Fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. She has held visiting appointments at Oxford and Harvard, and was previously a non-resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC (2012–16). She publishes widely in International Refugee Law and forced migration, with a particular focus on displacement in the context of climate change and disasters. She serves on multiple international committees and is joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law. In 2021, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for distinguished service to International Refugee Law, particularly to climate change and the displacement of people’.
Violeta Moreno-Lax is Full Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. She is founder and coordinator of the SAROBMED: The Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean, a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder consortium documenting and analyzing human rights violations at sea occurring during interdiction/rescue operations. She holds a PhD in International Law and EU Law on Migration, Borders and Human Rights from the Université Catholique de Louvain, and a MA in European Studies from the College of Europe. Her research focuses on International and EU Law at the intersection with migration, border violence, and security. She has published widely in the areas of International and European Refugee and Migration Law and regularly consults for the EU institutions and other organizations active in the field.
Anila Noor is Policy Advisor on Diversity, Integration & Gender Inclusion, FFVT Research Fellow, and Member of the European Commission Expert Group on the Views of Migrants. She co-leads the Global Refugee-led Network (GRN) and the Global Independent Refugee Women Leaders (GIRWL), and is founder of New Women Connectors.
Militza Pérez Velásquez is Venezuelan and currently resides in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil as a forced migrant, where she works at AVSI-Brazil. She holds a Masters in Society and Borders from Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR) and is studying International Economic and Integration Law at Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). She has a Specialist degree in Human Rights from Universidad Nacional Abierta de Venezuela and is a graduate in International Studies from UCV.
Lublanc Prieto is a Lawyer and Human Rights Activist. She is a Venezuelan refugee, who currently resides in Colombia. She is President and a Founding Member of the Fundacolven. She has played a major role in launching campaigns with organizations throughout Latin American serving refugee communities, specifically strengthening the rights of Venezuelans in Colombia.
Yiombi Thona is Professor at the Gwangju University and Visiting Professor at Chonnam National University, both in South Korea. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, he worked at the National Intelligence Agency. He holds a BA degree in Economics from Université Libre de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, a MA degree in Economics from Université de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as a MA in Inter-Asia NGO Studies from Sungkonghoe University, South Korea. He also achieved a PhD in Political Science from University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a former refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and sought asylum in South Korea.
Najeeba Wazefadost is the founder of three refugee-led networks (the Global Refugee-led Network (GRN), Global Independent Refugee Women Leaders (GIRWL) and Asia Pacific Network of Refugees (APNOR)). She is also Refugee Ambassador at the Amnesty International Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Medical Science and Nursing from the University of Technology Sydney. She is a refugee and gender equality advocate and is actively involved in the development of refugee-led networks at both the regional and global level, which focuses on bringing together refugee-led organizations and refugee change-makers to gather to discuss their lived experiences and propose solutions for more effective and sustainable refugee policy. She is a former refugee from Afghanistan. When she sought asylum in Australia she spent several months in mandatory immigration detention before being recognized as a refugee.