MATTHEW C. SCOTT [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewscott111/ / @matthewscott111

EDUCATION

Sep 12 – PhD PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL May 18 Faculty of Law, , Thesis: Refugee Status Determination in the Context of ‘Natural’ Disasters and Climate Change: A Human Rights- Based Approach

Aug 08 – POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LEGAL PRACTICE (DISTINCTION) Jun 10 College of Law, London, UK [Part time]

Oct 03 – LLB (UPPER SECOND CLASS HONOURS) Jun 07 University of London External Programme [Part time]

Sept 98 – MA SOCIAL OF DEVELOPMENT (MERIT) Aug 99 University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) UK Dissertation: An Analysis of Irrigation Development in Morocco

Aug 94 – BA INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (SUMMA CUM LAUDE) May 98 Simon’s Rock College of Bard, USA Thesis: Religious Environmental Ethics: Ecological Interpretations of Buddhism and Islam

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Senior Researcher and Head of People on the Move thematic area Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (since 2017)  Lead 10 country study on rights-based approaches to internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate change in Asia and the Pacific  Lead rights-based component of ‘Building Resilience to Disaster Risk’ programme, focusing on identifying and developing practical methodologies for integrating rights-based approaches to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation in Asia and the Pacific - in consortium with the Asia Disaster Preparedness Center, Stockholm Environment Institute and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)  Lead researcher on Swedish national component of a research initiative studying national approaches to addressing cross-border displacement in the context of climate change in collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights in Vienna  Lead the development of research and education initiatives relating to the People on the Move thematic area across the Asia-Pacific, MENA, Africa and Europe regions where the Institute has a presence

PUBLICATIONS Matthew Scott and Albert Salamanca (eds), Internal Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Asia Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach (Routledge 2020, accepted for publication)

Matthew Scott, ‘Refugees/Migrants (2019) in Giulio Bartolini et al. (eds) Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Brill, 2020) submitted for publication

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Matthew Scott, Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention (Cambridge University Press 2020)

Matthew Scott, ‘Refugees/Migrants (2018)’ in Giulio Bartolini et al. (eds) Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Brill, 2019) Link to publication

Matthew Scott, ‘Accountability for State Failures to Prevent Sexual Assault in Evacuation Centres and Temporary Shelters: A Human Rights-Based Approach’ in Catarina Kinnvall & Helle Rydström (eds) Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications (Routledge 2019) Link to publication

Matthew Scott, ‘Climate Refugees and the 1951 Convention’ in Satvinder Juss (ed) Elgar Research Handbook on International Refugee Law (Elgar 2019) Link to publication

Matthew Scott, ‘Background Brief: Key International Standards and Guidelines Relating to Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change’ (Raoul Wallenberg Institute 2019) Link to publication

Matthew Scott, Refugee Status Determination in the Context of ‘Natural’ Disasters and Climate Change: A Human Rights-Based Approach (Lund University Press 2018) Link to publication

Matthew Scott, ‘Finding Agency in Adversity: Applying the Refugee Convention in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change’ (2016) 35 Refugee Survey Quarterly 26 Link to publication

Matthew Scott, ‘A Role for Strategic Litigation’ (2015) 49 Forced Migration Review: Disasters and Displacement in a Changing Climate 47 Link to publication

Matthew Scott, ‘Refuge from Climate Change-Related Harm: Evaluating the Scope of International Protection within the Common European Asylum System” in C Bauloz and others (eds) Seeking Asylum in the : Critical Perspectives on the Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff 2015) Link to publication

Matthew Scott, ‘Food Security, Climate Change and Mediterranean Migration from the Sahel’ Roma Tre Magazine, 2015, p 33-36 Link to publication

Matthew Scott, ’Klimatförändring och Migration’ Artikel 14, Journal of Flyktingrupparnas Riksråd (FARR) 2014

Matthew Scott, ‘Natural Disasters, Climate Change and Non-Refoulement: What Scope for Resisting Expulsion under Articles 3 and 8 ECHR?’ (2014) 26 International Journal of Refugee Law 404 Link to publication

GRANTS 2020 – Pufendorf Institute – member of interdisciplinary research group exploring the theme ‘the future of human rights’ - https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/new-themes-and-advanced-study-groups-for- 2020-2021

2019 –EUR 250,000 research grant from the Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) studying judicial and policy responses to climate change-related mobility in the European Union with a focus on and Sweden, together with the Vienna-based Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights . https://bim.lbg.ac.at/en/project/projects-asylum-anti-discrimination-and-diversity/climmobil- judicial-and-policy-responses-climate-change-related-mobility-european-union-focus-austria- and-sweden

2019 – EUR 40,000 star-up grant from the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the and Social to hold two workshops on climate change-related mobility in the Nordic

2 and Arctic regions with the aim of developing a Nordic academic network on the subject. Lead applicant was the , Faculty of Law. - https://jura.ku.dk/cilg/research/climate-related- displacement-and-mobility/

TEACHING Course convenor, MA thesis supervisor, lecturer and examiner on masters-level courses at Lund University in international refugee law and international human rights law on topics including  Climate change and disasters in international refugee law and international human rights law  Economic, social and cultural rights  Protection of particular groups under international refugee law, including women, children and people fearing persecution on the basis of gender or sexual identity

PEER REVIEW  Cambridge University Press  American Journal of International Law  Refugee Survey Quarterly  International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy

MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS  Member of the Advisory Committee of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (since 2018)  Member of the Advisory Board of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law (since 2018)  Examiner of the University of London (Since 2016)  Member of The Law Society of England and Wales (since 2008)  Research Affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London School of Advanced Study (Since 2013)

MEDIA 4 December 2019 - Radio New Zealand - Vanuatu's disaster induced displacement policy lauded - https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/programmes/datelinepacific/audio/2018725246/vanuatu- s-disaster-induced-displacement-policy-lauded

30 November 2015 (radio appearance) - 'Studio ett reder ut asylrätten' https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&artikel=6315005

10 July 2015 (radio appearance) - 'Australiens läkare får ej prata om missförhållanden i flyktingförvaren', Studio ett - https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&artikel=6209291

LANGUAGES Very good working knowledge Good working knowledge Limited working knowledge . Swedish . Russian . Arabic . French . Spanish

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CONFERENCES; WOKSHOPS; VISITING ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2020

11 March – delivered two invited lectures at Copenhagen University on the topics of integrating human rights into disaster risk reduction and addressing displacement in the context of disasters and climate change

15 January – delivered an address on integrating human rights into disaster risk reduction to delegates of the Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Risk Management, held in Bangkok,

2019

22-27 November – Held national consultations on disaster displacement in Fiji and Vanuatu, based on 10 country research initiative.

7 October – Facilitated national workshop on statelessness and civil documentation for university law departments in , drawing on three years of research in collaboration with universities in Yangon and

1 October – Presented research findings from ten country study on displacement in the context of disasters and climate change at BRAC, Bangladesh in connection with endorsement workshop of National Strategy for the Management of Disaster and Climate-Induced Internal Displacement

10 September – Facilitated capacity strengthening session on human rights and disaster management within Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency-led International Training Programme with participants working in disaster management from the Philippines, Nepal and Bangladesh

5-6 September – Facilitated session on a human rights-based approach to displacement in the context of disasters and climate change at the African Union / Network of African National Human Rights Institutions conference on durable solutions to forced displacement, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

9-11 July – Participated in monitoring and evaluation workshop concerning human rights and gender equality in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation within the context of joint programme on Building Resilience to Disaster Risk led by Asia Disaster Preparedness Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

29 March – 1 April – Facilitated workshops with students at two universities in Yangon on human rights- based research methods for studying statelessness and lack of civil documentation in Myanmar

27 March – Facilitated workshop on human rights, disaster risk management and climate change adaptation for staff at Asia Disaster Preparedness Centre as part of Building Resilience to Disaster Risk programme, Bangkok, Thailand

21 January 2019 – Participated in roundtable on climate change and migration on the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace, London,

2018

3-7 December 2018 – Participated in the 14th Regional Consultative Committee of National Disaster Management Organizations, including consulting with states on the role of human rights in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, Kathmandu, Nepal

28-29 November 2018 – Convened and facilitated authors workshop and stakeholder consultation on disaster displacement in ten countries in Asia Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand

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6-7 August 2018 – Facilitated workshop with 18 university law departments from across Myanmar on statelessness and civil documentation, based on UNHCR-supported field research in the Mandalay region, Mandalay, Myanmar

18-20 July 2018 – Presented one paper on a recalibrated human rights-based approach to the refugee definition and a second paper on a human rights-based approach to disaster-displacement in Asia Pacific at the Refugee Law Initiative annual conference

3-4 July 2018 – Facilitated workshop on disaster displacement in ten countries in Asia Pacific, Manila, Philippines at Ateneo University

3-5 May – Participated in a planning workshop with the African Union, UNHCR and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law on commemoration of the 1969 OAU Refugee Convention

6-7 March – Facilitated workshop on field research methods at Mandalay University in Myanmar, supporting UNHCR-funded research initiative on statelessness and civil documentation

2017

14-15 December – Organised and facilitated workshop on internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate change: a human rights-based approach, Jakarta, Indonesia

4-5 December – Co-organised workshop ‘Should I stay or should I go? Understanding refugee decision- making in first countries of asylum’, Istanbul, Turkey

25-27 October – Participated in AICHR consultation on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Sabah, Malaysia

18-20 October – Facilitated workshops on citizenship, civil documentation and non-discrimination with universities and the National Human Rights Commission in Mandalay and Yangon, Myanmar under project supported by UNHCR

January – February – Visiting Academic at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales,

2016

4 July 2016 (presenting paper on invitation) - Finding agency in adversity: the Refugee Convention in the context of disasters and climate change, University of East Anglia conference 'Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse'

29 June - 1 July 2016 'Finding agency in adversity: the future of international refugee law in the context of disasters and climate change', Refugee Law Initiative, First Annual Conference: The Future of Refugee Law?, University of London, United Kingdom

3-4 May 2016 (jointly coordinating and presenting) - By invitation symposium: Disasters and Displacement in a Warming World: Current Realities, Legal Perspectives - Paper title 'How should refugee lawyers conceptualise disasters?', Lund University, a collaboration between the Lund-Uppsala Migration Law Network (LUMIN) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

3-4 March 2016 (presenting paper on invitation) - 'Complementary Protection in Situations of Cross- Border Disaster-Related Displacement', at The Protection of Persons in Times of Disasters: International and European Legal Perspectives, International Disaster Law Project, Rome,

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2015

16 October 2015 ‘Natural hazards, human actors, serious harm: Refugee protection through understanding the social construction of disasters’ at Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE)

1 July 2015 ‘Förbered för framtidens klimatflyktingar genom att fokusera på nutidens flyktingar och migranter’ at Almedalen, Lund / Uppsala Migration Law Network paneldiskussion ‘Döden i Medelhavet, klimatmigration och trovärdighetsproblem – håller asylrätten för framtiden?’

7-8 May 2015 ‘Natural hazards, human actors, serious harm: Bridging protection gaps through understanding the social construction of disasters’ at Nordic Asylum Law Seminar, Uppsala University

15 April 2015 (presenting on invitation) - 'klimatflyktingar' at Migrationsöverdomstolen (the Swedish Migration Court of Appeal) in Stockholm

7 January 2015 ‘Causes of migration in the Mediterranean’ at Brandeis Institute of International Judges public roundtable ‘Migration in the Mediterranean’, Malta

5-8 January 2015 (principal rapporteur) - Brandeis Institute for International Law Judges, Malta

2014

27 November 2014 - seminar to Migrationskollegiet (group of lawyers practicing asylum and immigration law in Malmö and Lund) on 'Klimatflyktingar och EKMR'

4-5 November 2014 ‘Food security, climate change and Mediterranean migration from the Sahel’ at Migration and the Mediterranean, a conference jointly organised by Lund University, the Universities and Swedish Institutes, the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies and Roma Tre University held in Rome, Italy

6-7 October 2014 ‘Developing protection from disaster-related harm in an era of climate change: Practitioner perspectives on strategic litigation’ at LUMIN Lund Symposium

29 July - 1 August 2015 (rapporteur) Brandeis Institute for International Law Judges, Raoul Wallenberg Institute

6-7 February 2014 ‘Developing international protection for environmental migrants: confronting legal and extra-legal obstacles through strategic litigation’ at L/UMIN Workshop, Lund University

27 January 2014 (presenting on invitation) – ‘Natural disasters, climate change and non-refoulement: what scope for resisting expulsion under Articles 3 and 8 ECHR?’ to judges of the UK Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)

2013

14 November 2013 (presenting) – Climate change related displacement: what scope for protection under refugee and human rights law at workshop by the same name initiated by me in collaboration with Bruce Burson of the New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal, and hosted by the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London

23 September 2013 – Taking Responsibility for Climate Change-Related Displacement: Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Proportionality of Expelling ‘Climate Refugees’’ at 8th

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Uppsala Forum Workshop on Global Climate Change: ‘Dealing with Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Loss, Damage, Adaptation and Social Justice’

30 January 2013 – ‘EU citizenship and fundamental rights – developments and future directions in the Zambrano doctrine’ at Amnesty International / Swedish Red Cross gathering of asylum and immigration practitioners in Stockholm

Multiple seminars on the EU Reception Conditions Directive in collaboration with the Swedish Red Cross and the Odysseus Academic Network delivered to lawyers, hospital staff and officers at Migrationsverket

6-9 January 2013 – Protecting climate change displaced persons through strategic litigation: The potential application of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights at IASFM 14: Contested Spaces and Cartographic Challenges, Kolkata, India

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT Sept 12 – DOCTORAL CANDIDATE May 18 FACULTY OF LAW, LUND UNIVERSITY

Aug 11 – CONSULTANT SOLICITOR Aug 12 WAINWRIGHT & CUMMINS SOLICITORS (UK) . Advised and represented diverse range of immigrants and asylum-seekers from initial contact through to higher courts in private practice . Delivered training on immigration law to non-specialist solicitors

Feb 07 – SENIOR CASEWORKER Mar 11 IMMIGRATION ADVISORY SERVICE (UK) . Advised and represented diverse range of immigrants and asylum-seekers from initial contact through to higher UK and European courts . Specialist focus on asylum, EU free movement, public law actions against the UK Border Agency, criminal deportation, unaccompanied minors and trafficking cases

Sep 06 – CASEWORKER Feb 07 THE LAW SOCIETY OF ENGLAND AND WALES (UK) Managed Worked with solicitors and their clients to resolve complaints concerning professional conduct and service . Worked with solicitors and their clients to resolve complaints concerning professional conduct and service

Aug 05 – OPERATIONS AND POLICY OFFICER Jul 06 DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP (AUSTRALIA) . Managed a high-profile caseload, liaising with external agencies and overseas authorities and preparing briefing papers for the Minister of Immigration and Citizenship and the Commonwealth Ombudsman

Jul 03 – MIGRATION OFFICER Jul 05 AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) . Implemented a high-volume migration programme, increasing efficiency in case management, managing locally-engaged caseworkers and tracking evolving caseload characteristics

Sept 02 – INTERN Dec 02 UNHCR (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) . Conducted research on social support networks amongst refugees in Moscow, reflecting on the adverse impacts of the UNHCR policy on self-reliance

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