Lawrence Huang
Policy Analyst
Lawrence Huang is a Policy Analyst with MPI’s International Program, primarily working on climate and migration. His research areas also include development and migration, border management, and refugee protection. He leads a research project on climate and migration and the intersections with development, social cohesion, labor migration, and protection. He has also worked on issues around climate financing, conducted external evaluations of climate migration programming, and advised governments, international organizations, and multilateral development banks working on the issue. He also supports MPI’s work on borders and mobility, including MPI’s Task Force on Borders and Mobility During and After COVID-19.
Previously, Mr. Huang worked as a consultant at the International Organization for Migration, where he led capacity-building and knowledge management in an 11-country global program on migration and sustainable development. Earlier, he was an Editor at the Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration and co-ran the annual conference of the Oxford Migration Studies Society.
He holds a master’s degree in migration studies from the University of Oxford, funded by the Healy Scholarship at St. Cross College, and a BA in government with honors from Georgetown University.
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South Korea faces a rapidly aging population and shrinking workforce. What role can immigration play in responding to these pressures? In this World of Migration podcast episode, MPI’s Lawrence Huang speaks with Juyoung Jang, a senior policy researcher and advisor on migration and demographics at South Korea’s Migration Research and Training Center.
This webinar focuses on how climate change is altering human mobility and offers insights into on-the-ground experiences of climate change and migration in East Africa, South Asia, and other global contexts.
Foreign aid budgets have been slashed significantly by governments in the United States, Europe, and beyond, raising questions about what humanitarian assistance will look like in practice.
Drawing from a series of MPI policy briefs that chart an agenda for policymakers to manage climate mobility, this expert discussion offers concrete examples of how governments across the globe can respond to the nexus of climate change and migration.
During this MPI webinar, climate experts and regional authorities outline the challenges related to climate change and human mobility that local communities, national governments, and the IGAD region are confronting.
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Drawing from a series of MPI policy briefs that chart an agenda for policymakers to manage climate mobility, this expert discussion offers concrete examples of how governments across the globe can respond to the nexus of climate change and migration.
Can Innovation Help Blunt the Impact of Foreign Aid Cuts on Migration Management Programs?
Why Financing Responses to Climate Migration Remains a Challenge
Managing Mobility in the Pandemic Era Requires World to Buy In on Shared Principles