Elizabeth Ferris

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Co-Director, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement | Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy

Elizabeth Ferris is the co-director of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy, where her work encompasses a wide range of issues related to internal displacement, humanitarian action, natural disasters and climate change. Her book, The Politics of Protection, examines the challenges—and limitations—of protecting vulnerable populations from the ravages of war and natural disasters.

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Expertise

  • Internally Displaced Persons
  • Human rights
  • Humanitarian Issues
  • Refugees
  • United Nations
  • Climate Change
  • Natural Disasters

Experience

Past Positions

  • Team Coordinator, Diakonia and Solidarity, World Council of Churches
  • Director, Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program
  • Research Director, Life & Peace Institute (Uppsala, Sweden)
  • Fulbright Professor, Universidad Nácional Autónoma de México
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University

Education

  • Ph.D. (1976), M.A. (1972), University of Florida
  • B.A., Duke University, 1971

Language Fluency

  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

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"[A presidential statement on humanitarian issues] is a step forward, but a resolution would be much stronger."

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