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 Dr. Elizabeth Ferris

Dr. Elizabeth Ferris is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and codirector of The Brookings Institution – University of Bern Project, on Internal Displacement in Washington, D.C., where her work encompasses a wide range of issues related to forced migration, human rights, humanitarian action, the role of civil society in protecting displaced populations and the security
implications of displacement.

Dr. Ferris will address the Claire Randall Women's Leadership Luncheon at the Centennial Gathering/General Assembly.
 
Prior to joining Brookings in November 2006, Dr. Ferris spent 20 years working in the field of humanitarian assistance, most recently in Geneva, Switzerland at the World Council of Churches.
There she was responsible for the Council’s work in humanitarian response and long-term development. In this capacity, she worked with many local, national and international non-governmental organizations to support capacity building and to advocate for protection of  refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and other populations affected by conflict.
 
She has also served as the director of the Church World Service’s Immigration and Refugee
Program, the Research Director for the Life & Peace Institute, a Fulbright Professor at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her teaching experience has included positions at
Lafayette College, Miami University, and Pembroke State University.
 
She has written articles for Refugee Survey Quarterly, the Middle East Institute’s Viewpoints series, Forced Migration Review, New Routes, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and the International Review of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
 
She was educated at Duke University (B.A., ’71) and the University of Florida (M.A. ’72, PhD. ’76).

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