Lawrence Huang
Lawrence Huang is a Senior Policy Analyst with MPI’s Global 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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Financing Responses to Climate Migration: The Unique Role of Multilateral Development Banks
Multilateral development banks are uniquely positioned to finance climate migration responses but must build knowledge, data, and partnerships to act effectively at scale.
Why Financing Responses to Climate Migration Remains a Challenge
Despite years of alarmist discourse that climate change will lead to hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people moving to the Global North, funding the scale of efforts needed to address climate migration remains a persistent challenge. This commentary examines the gaps between climate donors and migration actors and offers recommendations to begin to break the silos.
Digital Health Credentials in India and Africa: Are COVID-19 Travel Passes Catalyzing New Tech Innovations?
Could the digital health infrastructure built to manage COVID-19 travel become the backbone of how the world responds to the next pandemic?
COVID-19 and the State of Global Mobility in 2021
Vaccines spurred a partial recovery of global mobility in 2021, but irregular migrants and asylum seekers remained the most excluded from pandemic relief and reopened travel.
Managing Mobility in the Pandemic Era Requires World to Buy In on Shared Principles
Many countries are reopening for international travel and migration after the shutdown forced by the pandemic. Yet there is still no consensus on whether and how to use travel measures to prevent the spread of future variants of COVID-19 or respond to the next public health crisis. This commentary lays out four guiding principles for building an inclusive and effective global mobility system.
Digital Health Credentials and COVID-19: Can Vaccine and Testing Requirements Restart Global Mobility?
Fragmented digital health credential systems hamper recovery of travel after the COVID-19 pandemic.
