Ms. Elizabeth Ferris
Ms. Elizabeth Ferris was appointed in December 2019 as a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the United Nations Secretary General鈥檚 High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement.
Ms Elizabeth Ferris is Research Professor with the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University鈥檚 School of Foreign Service. From January to September 2016, she also served as Senior Advisor to the 缅北禁地General Assembly鈥檚 Summit for Refugees and Migrants in New York. From 2006 to 2015, she was a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement where she worked to support understanding and protection of internally displaced persons. Prior to joining Brookings, she spent 20 years working in the field of humanitarian assistance, most recently in Geneva, Switzerland at the World Council of Churches. She has also served as the Director of the Church World Service鈥檚 Immigration and Refugee Program, as Research Director for the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala, Sweden and as a Fulbright Professor at the Universidad Aut贸noma de M茅xico. Her teaching experience has included positions at Lafayette College, Miami University and Pembroke State University. She has written extensively on refugee, migration and humanitarian issues including The Politics of Protection: The Limits of Humanitarian Action (Brookings Institution Press, 2011), Consequences of Chaos: Syria鈥檚 Humanitarian Crisis and the Failure to Protect, with Kemal Kirsici (Brookings Institution Press, 2016), and, most recently, Refugees, Migration and Global Governance: Negotiating the Global Compacts with Katharine Donato (Routledge 2019).
Ms Ferris received her BA degree from Duke University and her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Florida.