Jasmin Lilian Diab

Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/her) is the director of the Institute for Migration Studies and an assistant professor of migration studies at the Department of Social and Education Sciences. Most recently, Dr. Diab joined the United Nations-mandated University for Peace as a visiting professor at their Department of Peace and Conflict Studies. She has served as an adjunct faculty member of International Migration and Refugee Law at the Oxford Global Institute of Law, as well as a guest lecturer at McGill University on Refugee and Migrant Health, and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies on Radicalization within Refugee Communities. Dr. Diab is a research affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a global fellow at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, a scholar in Forced Displacement at University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and the lead of the Global Research Network’s Gender and Migration Research Group.

She has served as an international consultant to UN agencies, international humanitarian organizations and governments, and has assisted in evaluating humanitarian programming, conducting research in conflict settings, conducting gender analyses, and developing strategies for organizations’ interventions in hard-to-reach areas across the MENA - particularly in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen and the Palestinian Territories. She is a country of origin information expert to AMERA International’s Rights in Exile Program, an editorial board member at Act for Displaced, the Journal of Internal Displacement, Marywood University’s Journal of Applied Professional Studies and PLOS Global Public Health where she also serves as their guest editor on Humanitarian Aid, Conflict and Migration. Dr. Diab serves as an advisory board member to People Beyond Borders, the Indian Society of Legal Research, and Rowman & Littlefield Press’ Migration, Displacement, and Development Book Series.

She holds a PhD in International Relations and Diplomacy with an emphasis on Asylum, Refugees and Security from the Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies of the School of Advanced International and Political Studies at INSEEC Grande Ecole in Paris, and holds graduate degrees in International Law, Human Rights and Feminist Writings.