Daniel Ghezelbash

Dr. Daniel Ghezelbash (@danghez) is the Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow. He is an internationally recognised scholar of international and comparative refugee and migration law. His current research focuses on examining comparative practices to develop recommendations for improving the fairness and efficiency of asylum procedures. He is the founder of the Kaldor Centre Data Lab, through which he has pioneered computational and data-driven approaches to studying administrative and judicial decision-making in refugee cases. He has also published widely on the way restrictive asylum policies have spread around the world. This is the topic of his book, Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is Special Counsel at the National Justice Project and sits on the boards of a number of not-for-profit legal centres, including the Refugee Advice and Casework Service. He is also on LinkedIn.