Partner, Migration

Dr Lucy Hovil

Lucy is an Expectation State Partner, leading our Migration and Displacement portfolio.

Lucy is a widely published global expert on asylum and displacement within a broader context of migration. She has 25 years of experience working with a broad range of governments, non-governmental organisations and donors to understand the ecosystem that governs and influences those impacted by conflict and displacement in order to effect change. Having worked on issues of displacement in Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia, Europe and the Americas, she has both a granular understanding of day-to-day realities faced by those who are displaced, and a global perspective on the broader context of human mobility.

In addition to an established research portfolio, Lucy is a Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative (University of London), a Deployable Civilian Expert for the UK Government’s Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation, a member of UNDP’s Experts Roster for Rapid Response, a member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime Network of Experts, and the former Managing Editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice.

Her book, Refugees, Conflict and the Search for Belonging was published by Palgrave in 2016.