Leah Zamore
Senior Fellow and Director of Global Policy Engagement, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School
| Degrees: | Juris Doctorate (Yale Law School); MSc. (Oxford University); B.A./Undergraduate (Harvard University) |
| Email: | zamorel@newschool.edu |
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| Website: | https://zolberginstitute.org/ |
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Leah Zamore is the Senior Research Fellow and directs The New School Zolberg Institute’s global policy engagement efforts, as well as teaches university courses on international law. She is on the Board of Directors of Asylum Access, a global refugee rights NGO. Prior to joining The New School, Leah directed the Humanitarian Crises program at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC). She also co-directed an Experts Group on Global Refugee Policy, and is the co-author, with Alex Aleinikoff, of The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime (Stanford, 2019). Previously, Ms. Zamore taught international human rights law as a visiting professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas law school in Sao Paulo, Brazil; served as a special advisor to the federal Government in Brasilia on refugee and humanitarian issues; and, before that, worked as a policy advisor to the Deputy High Commissioner of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. In previous years, her human rights and humanitarian work has taken her to Ethiopia, northern Uganda, South Africa, France, Kosovo, and India. Ms. Zamore has a Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School, a Master’s degree from Oxford University, and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.