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Kathleen Newland

 

Kathleen Newland is Co-Director and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, a newly established think-tank dedicated to analysis and policy development relating to international migration and refugee issues. Prior to founding MPI in July 2001, she was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she co-directed the International Migration Policy Program. Her work focuses on refugee policy and international migration management. She also chairs the Board of Directors of the Women. s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, and sits on the Board of the International Rescue Committee.

Immediately before joining the Endowment, Ms. Newland worked as an independent consultant. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Bank, and the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations were her principal clients. In 1992-93, she wrote the first State of the World. s Refugees report for UNHCR, which has become the organization. s flagship biennial publication. From 1988-92, Ms. Newland lectured at the London School of Economics, becoming a full-time member of the International Relations faculty in 1990. In this same period, she co-founded (with Lord David Owen) and directed Humanitas, an educational trust dedicated to increasing awareness of international humanitarian issues. From 1982-87, she was Special Assistant to the Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo. She began her career as a researcher at Worldwatch Institute in Washington D.C., where she analyzed migration, population, refugees and women. s issues.

Ms. Newland is the author or editor of five books and 11 shorter monographs (including US Refugee Policy: Dilemmas and Directions for the Carnegie Endowment), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. The latter include the opening chapter of the 1999 World Refugee Survey and the concluding chapter of UNHCR. s State of the World. s Refugees 2000. She is also the executive producer of three documentary films on humanitarian issues.  She served as Advisor to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. s Task Force on Communications for the UN reform effort, and has advised the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Director General of the International Labor Organization on strategic communication of policy priorities.

Ms. Newland is a graduate of Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She did additional graduate work in political economy at the London School of Economics.