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About the Speaker

Professor David Cantor, PhD, is founder and Director of the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with 25 years’ experience of research, advice and advocacy on refugee and IDP law and policy. Since founding the RLI in 2011, David has developed it into an internationally‑recognised centre of expertise and global leadership on refugee and IDP law and policy involving 500+ people, securing over £9 million of competitive research funding and organising over 150 events. He is the founder and Editor‑in‑Chief of Brill’s International Refugee Law book series and Editor‑in‑Chief of the OUP Refugee Survey Quarterly journal.

Since entering academia in 2010, David has published ten books and journal special issues, over 45 journal articles and book chapters, and numerous reports, and his work on crime‑driven displacement in Latin America won the Times Higher Education Research Project of the Year. He has carried out fieldwork since 1998 across Latin America and previously worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea. David has a long‑standing track record of legal and policy work with and for refugees and displaced populations, including practising refugee and human rights law on over 500 cases and serving as Principal Advisor to UNHCR’s Americas Bureau.