Auteur: Jasmin Lilian Diab

Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/her) is a Canadian-Lebanese writer, researcher, university professor, editor and consultant in the areas of Migration, Gender and Conflict Studies. She currently serves as a tenured Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University’s Department of Social Sciences. In previous roles, she served as the Refugee Health Program Coordinator at the American University of Beirut”s Global Health Institute (GHI), as well as the MENA Regional Focal Point on Migration of the UN General Assembly-mandated UN Major Group for Children and Youth. She is a Senior Consultant on Refugee and Gender Studies at Cambridge Consulting Services, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a Scholar in Forced Displacement at University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and a Junior Fellow and Program Lead at the Global Research Network’s “War, Conflict and Global Migration” Think Tank. She holds a Ph D in International Relations and Diplomacy with an emphasis on Asylum, Refugees and Security from the esteemed Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies (CEDS) of the School of Advanced International and Political Studies at INSEEC U. in Paris, and is the recipient of the CLS 2021 Bursary Award to complete her Postdoctoral research on “Bridging the Gap between Social Protection and the Humanitarian Response in Times of COVID-19: The Case of Lebanon”s Refugees and Good Practices” at LAU-University of Oxford’s Centre for Lebanese Studies.