Professor Paula Banerjee is appointed IDRC Research Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement at the Asian Institute of Technology’s Gender and Development Studies (GDS) Program in the School of Environment, Resource, and Development. Professor Banerjee, who has a long research experience and publication record on forced migration and gender in both South And Southeast Asia, will start her role officially as the new IDRC Chair in April 2023. She will also be the founding Director of the new Center on Gender and Forced Displacement hosted by GDS, AIT.