In 2018, WORLD formed an advisory group to provide input on its initiative to inform the global discussion on international migration by providing data on migration laws and policies across the globe. The group, supported by the Ford Foundation, was comprised of leaders from academia, civil society and intergovernmental organizations, who met on a range of topics important to migration. Over the course of its tenure, the group provided rich input and discussion that helped shape WORLD's migration data development. When WORLD launched the completed data in 2021, the advisory group helped disseminate to stakeholders around the world.
We are immensely thankful for the contributions of the group’s members:
- Theresa Betancourt, Salem Professor in Global Practice, Boston College School of Social Work, and Director, Research Program on Children and Adversity
- Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
- Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law, The University of Sydney
- Maurice Crul, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology Identities, Diversity and Inclusion (IDI), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Kevin Jennings, President, Tenement Museum, New York
- Frans Lelie, Visiting Fellow, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Sociology
- Kristine Perry, International Human Rights Legal Adviser
- Anna Shea, Researcher and Legal Advisor, Amnesty International
- Adam Strom, Director, Re-Imagining Migration (UCLA)
- Carola Suárez-Orozco, Professor of Human Development and Psychology, UCLA, Co-Director, Institute for Immigration, Globalization & Education and Co-Founder, Re-Imagining Migration (UCLA)
- Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and Distinguished Professor of Education (UCLA)
- Kristina Touzenis, Head of the International Migration Law Unit, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
- Cornelis Wouters, Senior Refugee Law Advisor, Protection Policy and Legal Advice, Division of International Protection at UNHCR
