Introduction
Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab is the Director of the Institute for Migration Studies, and an Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University.
Expert
Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/her) is a Canadian-Lebanese expert on Migration, Gender and Conflict Studies.
Dr. Diab is the Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University, where she also serves as an Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the Department of Social and Education Sciences. In previous roles, she served as the Refugee Health Program Coordinator at the American University of Beirut's Global Health Institute, and a Research Associate under GHI's Political Economy of Health in Conflict Workstream. She serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member of International Migration and Refugee Law at the Global Institute of Law, and has served as a Guest Lecturer at McGill University on Refugee and Migrant Health. 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, a Peace Responsiveness Expert at Interpeace, 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 and the Palestinian Territories.
She is a Country of Origin Information Expert to AMERA International's 'Rights in Exile Program,' a Reviewer at University of Oxford's Journal of Refugee Studies, and 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.
Fields of expertise: Gender equality, Migration