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Senior Fellow

Elizabeth Ferris

Elizabeth Ferris

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

As co-director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Beth Ferris focuses on the international community’s response to humanitarian crises, with a particular emphasis on the human rights of internally displaced persons.

Expertise

Human rights; humanitarian issues; internally displaced persons; refugees

  • Language Fluency:
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese

Background

Past Positions
Team Coordinator, Diakonia and Solidarity, World Council of Churches; Programme Executive for International Relations, World Council of Churches; Director, Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program; Research Director, Life & Peace Institute; Study and Interpretation Secretary, Refuge Service, World Council of Churches; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lafayette College; Fulbright Professor, Universidad Nácional Autónoma de México; Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University; Assistant Professor, Pembroke State University

Education

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

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