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Wednesday, 5 May 2021
(10:00-11:30 am EDT / 16:00-17:30 pm CET)

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The Editors of Global Governance are pleased to announce a panel discussion of recent authors on the topic “Migration, Refugees, and UNHCR.” Please join us for a dialogue on refugee and migration policy in the context of UNHCR’s 70th anniversary. The panel will be hosted by the David M. Kennedy Center at Brigham Young University.
 

Speakers
 

Panelists

• Dr. Erika Feller, Vice Chancellor's Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Former Assistant High Commissioner of UNHCR and author of “UNHCR at 70: A Personal and Retrospective Look at Making Refugee Protection Real”
   
• Dr. Colleen Thouez, Director at Open Society Foundations (OSF) and author of “Cities as Emergent International Actors in the Field of Migration: Evidence from the Lead-Up and Adoption of the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees”
   
• Dr. Sandra Lavenex, Professor of European and International Politics at the University of Geneva and author of “The UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees: A Case for Experimentalist Governance?” 

Moderator

• Dr. Ken Stilles, Professor at Brigham Young University and Editor of Global Governance