Ola G. El-Taliawi
Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy Science at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
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Dr. Ola G. El-Taliawi is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy Science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She holds a Ph.D. from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (2019), and an M.A. in Public Policy and Administration from the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo (2010). Prior to joining the University of Twente, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy at Carleton University’s Faculty of Public Affairs, Canada. Her scholarly and professional endeavors for the past 15 years have centered around three main pillars: research, teaching, and practice; with the three informing each other. She is author of the book “The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South” (McGill-Queens University Press, 2024). She has been working with LERRN in different capacities since 2020.
Book Launch
New Book:
The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South (2024). McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Congratulations to Ola G. El-Taliawi, the 2025 recipient of the Levine Award!
Each year, the Levine Prize is awarded under the auspices of the Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government (RC 27) of the …
Book Launch: The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South Webinar Event Report
On May 5, 2025, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted a webinar to celebrate the launch of Dr. Ola El-Taliawi’s book, “The Politics …
Bibliometric Analysis of Refugee Policy Research: Mapping the Subfield
By: Ola G. El-Taliawi, Ph.D., Luiz Leomil, and James Milner Introduction Scholarship on refugee policy has grown substantially over the past decades, reflecting the increasing …
Op-Ed: What the Beirut Blast means for Lebanon’s Refugees
Last month’s Beirut Blast impacted thousands of people in the country, particularly Lebanon’s refugee population, who a majority of which are living below the poverty …
Three Lessons in Crisis Governance for the Age of Coronavirus
In a recent publication on the World Economic Forum website, Dr. Ola El-Taliawi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy at Carleton University, highlighted 3 crisis …
Dr. Ola G. El-Taliawi on the Current Divide Between the Norm and Practice of Refugee Protection
On Wednesday March 11, Dr. Ola G. El-Taliawi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy at Carleton University, gave a talk to outline her research agenda for advancing the …