Addressing Internal Displacement with Bina Desai

The Pearson Institute's May Lunch and Learn featured Bina Desai to discuss addressing internal displacement as a critical step towards peace and sustainable development.

About the Speaker

Bina Desai is the Head of Programmes at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). In this role, she oversees the organization’s program work, including global monitoring and reporting, the development of the flagship Global Report on Internal Displacement, the thematic research agenda, and data and risk analysis. She previously worked for the German Ministry for Development, the Aga Khan Development Network, Christian Aid/DFID, and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). From 2010 to 2017 she served as UNDRR’s Policy Analyst, co-authoring and leading the production of the United Nation’s Global Assessment Reports on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR). Bina holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and MSc in Sociology and Economics, and her main research interests are the relationship between inequality and economic growth, climate change impacts and disaster risk reduction, urban change and displacement.