Dr. Elizabeth G. Ferris to speak on climate change at US Conference Annual Meeting
Dr. Elizabeth G. Ferris, Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and Co-Director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, will be speaking about the implications of climate change for development issues -- specifically migration patterns -- at the Annual Meeting of the United States Conference for the World Council of Churches on 2-4 December 2008 in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ferris also teaches a graduate course in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Prior to joining Brookings in November 2006, she spent 20 years working in the field of international humanitarian response, most recently in Geneva, Switzerland at the World Council of Churches. Dr. Ferris has also served as Chair of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), as Research Director for the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, and as Director of the Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program in New York. She has been a professor at several US universities and served as a Fulbright professor at the Universidad Autónoma de México in Mexico City. Dr. Ferris has written or edited six books and many articles on humanitarian and human rights issues which have been published in both academic and policy journals. Her current research interests focus on the politics of humanitarian action and on the role of civil society in protecting displaced populations.
