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This research is being carried out by a team of professional researchers who have experience leading and working with refugee-led initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as other specialists with a wide experience in refugee research.
Please get to know the team below. |
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Tristan Harley (co-lead)
Tristan is dual-trained as a lawyer and historian, and has over ten years experience working on refugee and human rights law and policy. He has published widely in the field, including as co-author of the book Refugees, Regionalism and Responsibility (Elgar, 2016). He has also lectured at universities and worked as a consultant with organisations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Refugee Council, the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, the Asia Pacific Network for Refugees, and Act for Peace. |
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Najeeba Wazefadost (co-lead)
Najeeba is a former refugee who has been actively involved in the development of refugee-led networks at both the regional and global level. Her work focuses on bringing together refugee-led organisations and refugee change-makers from around the world to gather to discuss their lived experiences and propose solutions for more effective and sustainable refugee policy. Najeeba is the founder of three impactful refugee-led networks: the Global Refugee Led Network (GRN), the Global Independent Refugee Women Leaders (GIRWL), and the Asia Pacific Network of Refugees (APNOR). She has also published on issues related to meaningful refugee participation and the work of refugee-led organisations. |
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Mohammad
Mohammad has over five years of experience working with and supporting refugee-led initiatives in the areas of community development, organisational leadership, management, fundraising, resource allocation, and strategic planning. Among others, his latest work was with HELP which is a learning centre for refugees from over ten different nationalities residing in the greater Jakarta area. Mohammad helped to register the organisation as the first refugee-led foundation with the Indonesian government. He has also worked as a research consultant for Asian Development Bank and Restless Development UK. He is a firm believer in refugee leadership as the path to refugee community empowerment |
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Jessica Olney
Jessica serves as an advisor to The Asia Foundation's Conflict and Fragility Unit and as a Visiting Researcher with Centre for Peace and Justice, Brac University in Bangladesh, where she advises CPJ’s Refugee Studies Unit. She specialises in peace building, civil society support, and community engagement in challenging contexts, particularly Myanmar and its borderlands. An experienced practitioner, researcher and facilitator with 15 years of field experience, she has senior management-level experience at all stages of program design and implementation. She has worked as a consultant and researcher for DFAT (Australia), FCDO (UK), UNDP, World Food Programme, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and Peace Research Institute Oslo. She designed CPJ’s USAID-funded projects on civic engagement and peace building, piloted in 2019 amongst host and refugee communities in Cox’s Bazar. |
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Patrick Wall
Patrick is an independent consultant from Sydney who currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland. From early 2017 until mid-2021, Patrick worked at the headquarters of the UNHCR on the development and implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees, including the engagement of states, international organisations, civil society and refugees in advance of the first Global Refugee Forum in December 2019. Patrick holds an LL.M. in International Law and a Masters of Diplomatic Studies, and his work has been published in a number of academic publications, including the International Journal of Refugee Law. He has previously worked for the Federal Court of Australia, the Australian Attorney-General's Department, and the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Australian Senate. |