Contributors

Gervais Appave is currently the Special Policy Adviser to the Director General of the International Organization for Migration. He was the founding Director of the Migration Policy, Research and Communication (MPRC) Department at the IOM. He has been the editor in chief and a contributing author to several IOM World Migration Reports. His ­professional itinerary and responsibilities have revolved around the search for effective policies for the governance of human mobility. Frank Biermann is a research Professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He also chairs the Earth System Governance Project, a global transdisciplinary research network launched in 2009. Biermann’s current research examines multilateral institutions, options for reform of the United Nations, global adaptation governance, Sustainable Development Goals, the political role of science, global justice, non-state climate actions, and conceptual ­innovations such as the notion of the Anthropocene. Ingrid Boas is Assistant Professor at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her research is in the field of environmental change, mobilities and governance, with a focus on environmentally-induced migration, climate security and climate ­resilience. She has recently been awarded a personal grant on the subject of ­environmentally-related migration in the digital age. Her recent book is Climate Migration and Security: Securitisation as a Strategy in Climate Change Politics (2015). Maxine Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. An expert in the law and policy of climate change, from 2009–12, Professor Burkett also served as the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP). As the Director of ICAP, she led projects to address climate change policy and planning for island communities globally. Meredith Byrne is a Junior Technical Officer for the Labour Migration Branch of the International Labour Organisation, specializing in labour migration in the context of climate change and crisis. Meredith previously

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worked with the UNHCR Livelihoods Unit in Geneva after several stints of field research in both Cameroon and Uganda. Meredith has her BA in International Relations from Connecticut College and her M.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Oxford. ​ Christel Cournil is Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité and lecturer at . She is a member of the IRIS laboratory and is associated with CERAP. She runs a chronicle in the European Journal of Human Rights. She holds degrees from the University of Toulouse Capitol. Her research focuses on the climate-migration nexus, climate justice and the link between human rights and environmental law. François Crépeau is Full Professor and holds the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He has been appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants in 2011. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In August 2015, he became Director of McGill’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism for a three-year mandate. Carol Farbotko is a researcher in cultural geography and environmental studies, with interests in conceptualizing and testing the ways in which culture shapes, and is shaped by, environmental change. She has studied the cultural politics of a range of human and non-human subjects, including climate migrants. She is currently affiliated with the School of Land and Food – Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. Elizabeth Ferris is Research Professor with the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and also serves as a Non-resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. From 2006-2015, she was a Senior Fellow and co-director of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement. Prior to joining Brookings, she spent 20 years working in the field of ­humanitarian assistance. François Gemenne is a specialist of the geopolitics of environmental ­migration. He is a FNRS senior research associate at the University of Liège and he also lectures on environmental and migration policies in various universities, including Sciences Po in Paris and the Free University of Brussels. He has been involved in a large number of international research projects on these issues, including EACH-FOR, HELIX and MECLEP, for which he is the global research coordinator.

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Kathryn Hansen is a research assistant with the Law, Governance and Sustainability Lab, at McGill University, where she has been primarily working on the human rights implications of climate change policies and mechanisms. She completed her B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees at the McGill Faculty of Law and holds a B.A. in Political Studies, Environmental Studies, and Geography from Bishop’s University. James C. Hathaway is the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan, as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include the leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, second edition 2014 with M. Foster; first edition 1991); an interdisciplinary study of models for refugee law reform (Reconceiving International Refugee Law, 1997); and The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005). Caylee Hong is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She previously practised law as a project finance attorney in New York City and clerked at the Federal Court of Canada. She holds degrees from University College Utrecht, SOAS University of London, and McGill University. Her research focuses on infrastructure, finance, political belonging and the management and governance of natural resources. Dina Ionesco is the Head of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Division at the International Organization for Migration (IOM). In this capacity she oversees policies and programmes related to migration, environment and climate change. She is the co-author of the Atlas of Environmental Migration (2016). Dina was awarded ‘Woman in Geneva working for the Environment’. Prior to joining IOM in 2004, Dina worked with the OECD in Paris from 1998 to 2004 as an administrator on local development, as well as in non-governmental organizations and academia. Ademola Oluborode Jegede is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public and International Law, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, 0950, South Africa. He holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, University of Ibadan and the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. He has been a research visitor to the Centre for International Environmental Law, USA and Human Rights Institute at Abo Akademi, Finland. His research focuses on the interface of climate change with human rights of vulnerable groups and general international human rights law.

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Sébastien Jodoin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He is also a member of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and a faculty associate of the Governance, Environment & Markets Initiative at Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. in environmental studies from Yale University, graduate degrees in ­international relations and international law from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, and completed his legal education at McGill University. Sophia Kagan is a lawyer and programme manager with more than a decade of experience working on migration issues. From 2013–15, she worked with the International Labour Organization Office for Pacific Island countries in policy development on the issue of climate change-induced displacement of Pacific Islanders, through a joint technical cooperation project funded by the European Commission. She is currently the Chief Technical Adviser on a regional migration project with the International Labour Organization Regional Office for Arab States, based in Lebanon. Sophia received her LL.M degree from Monash University and her Masters of Science in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Michelle Leighton is Chief of the Labour Migration Branch for the International Labour Organization. She served as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Migration (2014–16) and has expertise in the fields of international law, labour migration,­ human rights, and economic development. She received her LL.M degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and previously taught on law faculties in Asia, Europe and the United States and authored numer- ous publications. Susan F. Martin is Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita and founder of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. She also chairs the Thematic Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration at the Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) at the World Bank. Previously, Dr. Martin served as the Executive Director of the US Commission on Immigration Reform, established by legislation to advise Congress and the President on US immigration and refugee policy. Benoît Mayer is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the founding managing editor of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law. He holds degrees from the National University of Singapore, McGill University, Sciences Po and the and has previously worked in Wuhan University

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(China). His research focuses on the climate-migration nexus and the ­international law on climate change law generally. Siobhán McInerney-Lankford is Senior Counsel at the World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency and a recognized expert in international human rights law. She is an adjunct professor at AU Washington College of Law, and has taught at EPLO, EIUC, the Harvard School of Public Health and the UN Summer Academy. She holds an LL.B. from Trinity College, Dublin, (First Class Honours), an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a B.C.L. and D.Phil. in EU human rights law both from Oxford. Robert McLeman is Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Dr. McLeman is a former Canadian foreign service officer who specializes in research on the relationship between environment and human migration; community­ adaptation to climatic variability and change; and, fostering citizen ­participation in environmental science. Ilona Millar is a Special Counsel in the Baker McKenzie climate change practice. She is also a visiting fellow and co-coordinates the international­ climate change law course at the Australian National University. Her ­particular focus is advising on the legal aspects of international and domestic climate change policy, carbon markets and emissions trading. She holds degrees from the University of Western Australia, Murdoch University and the University of Sydney. Daria Mokhnacheva is Programme Officer at the Migration, Environment and Climate Change Division at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in charge of IOM’s support to the Platform on Disaster Displacement (follow-up to the Nansen Initiative). Her under- graduate studies were in Oriental Studies and Social and Political Studies at the University of Cambridge, and her Masters studies focusing on environment, sustainable development and risks at Sciences Po Paris and Columbia University. She is one of the co-authors of The Atlas of Environmental Migration. Calum T.M. Nicholson’s thematic specialisation is on the ‘climate change and migration’ debate. His broader interests lie in the comparative study of applied fields in the social sciences, with the goal of determining the recurring structure of our narratives about what is, and what ought to be, regardless of thematic content. He holds a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and an M.Phil. in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford.

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Erika Pires Ramos is co-founder of the South American Network for Environmental Migrations – RESAMA. She has a Ph.D. in International Law at University of São Paulo and is a Federal Attorney at Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Renewable Resources – IBAMA. Researcher at Environmentally Displaced Persons Study Centre – NEPDA/UEPB, Human Rights and Vulnerabilities Research Group at UNISANTOS and Brazilian Institute for the Climate Change Law – iCLIMA. Her research focuses are: climate change, disasters, human rights and environmental migration laws, policies and governance. Alex Randall is programme manager at the Climate and Migration Coalition – a network of refugee and migration rights organizations working together on climate change. The coalition exists to support and protect people facing displacement linked to environmental change. He was lead author on ‘Moving Stories – the voices of people who move in the context of environmental change’ as well as numerous other reports. He writes regularly on climate-linked migration in the media. Fernanda de Salles Cavedon-Capdeville has a doctorate degree in Environmental Law, European mention from the University of Alicante, Spain, and a post-doctoral degree in Environmental Law and Human Rights from the University of in . She is a researcher at the South American Network for the Environmental Migrations and at the Centre International de Droit Comparé de l’Environnement. She is an independent consultant on environment, human rights, disasters and environmental migration laws and policies. Alice Sironi is Migration Law Specialist in the International Migration Law Unit of IOM Geneva. She trains government officials and other ­stakeholders on international migration law, reviews national legislation in this area and advises IOM offices on compliance with international standards. Her current research interests are environmental migration and protection of migrants in disaster situations. She studied at the Sorbonne University of Paris and holds a Ph.D. in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Naples. Mariam Traore Chazalnoël is a Thematic Specialist in Migration, Environment and Climate Change at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission to the United Nations in New York. In this capacity, Mariam manages IOM’s work in relation to the global climate negotiations. Mariam has been working with IOM since 2008 in various capacities in Geneva, Bamako and New York.

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Chloé Anne Vlassopoulos is Assistant Professor of Policy Science at the University of Picardie, France and member of the ‘Centre Universitaire de Recherche sur l’Action Publique et Politique’ (CURAPP-ESS/CNRS). She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of ­Pantheon-ASSAS/ Paris II. Her research focuses on policy history and policy change in asso- ciation with clean air policy, climate change and environmental migration. Kylie Wilson is a Senior Associate at Ashurst in Sydney, Australia practising­ in the areas of environmental and town planning law. Kylie has a Master of Laws in environmental law from New York University, where the focus of her research was international climate change law. Kylie previously­ practised law in the climate change group at Baker & McKenzie and was Researcher to the Honourable Justice Brian J. Preston, Chief Judge of the Land and Environmental Court of New South Wales. Katrina M. Wyman is the Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Wyman holds degrees from the University of Toronto and Yale Law School. Wyman’s research interests relate ­primarily to property and natural resources law and policy. She also has researched restitution for historical injustices, and the ethical, policy and legal responses to the possibility that climate change might prompt large- scale human migration.

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