SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

FRANS BOUWEN is Convenor of the Club of The Hague and the Hague Process. Previously, Dr. Bouwen served as Project Manager and Initiator of the Netherlands Chapter of the Society of International Development’s three-year project on the “Future of Asylum and Migration”. He has also served as Senior Consultant on external and strategic relations to the Board of Directors of the Dutch Refugee Council as well as Executive Secretary of the joint World Council of Churches’ and Conference of European Churches’ “Working Group on Asylum and Refugees”. Dr. Bouwen received his Master and Doctorate of Theology from the State University of Leiden, the Netherlands and is an international lecturer and writer on asylum, refugees, international affairs, and the role of the ecumenical movement.

MODERATOR

KATHLEEN NEWLAND is Director and Co-Founder of the Migration Policy Institute. Her work focuses on refugee protection, international humanitarian response, and migration and development. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she co-directed the International Migration Policy Program (1994-2001). She chairs the Board of Directors of the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children and sits on the Board of the International Rescue Committee. Before joining the Endowment, Ms. Newland worked as an independent consultant. Her principle clients were the UNHCR, the World Bank, and the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. In 1992-1993, she wrote the first State of the World’s Refugees report for UNHCR, which has become the organization’s flagship biennial publication. From 1988-1992, Ms. Newland lectured at the London School of Economics, becoming a full-time member of the International Relations faculty in 1990. Ms. Newland is the author or editor of five books and 11 shorter monographs as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Ms. Newland is a graduate of Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She did additional graduate work at the London School of Economics.