Amali ToweR
Refugee & Migration Expert | Founder & Executive Director, Climate Refugees
Amali (she/her) has extensive global experience in refugee protection, resettlement, forced migration and displacement contexts, having worked for NGOs, the UN Refugee Agency and the US Refugee Admissions Program. Years of interviewing refugees fleeing conflict allowed her the chance to hear their stories of also fleeing climate change. Through this, Climate Refugees was born. She has conducted research in climate displacement contexts, including in urban and camp settings. Her work has informed governments and numerous UN reports, including case studies from the Lake Chad Basin and Kenya presented as evidence of loss and damage at COP26 and COP28.
She is a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network in Migration, Human Rights & Humanitarian Response and the UC Berkeley climate refugees working group. She sits on the advisory board of The Center for Climate and Security in Washington D.C.
From responding to Afghan evacuations to overseeing Syrian refugee resettlement, Amali is consulted for her expertise in humanitarian contexts, human rights and public policy. Amali serves displaced populations as an experienced defender and her clients as a partner and advisor. She developed her world views and deep commitment to forcibly displaced populations through a lived experience. She’s born of that education, life in multiple countries, and those at Columbia University, where she earned a Master of International Affairs focused in Human Rights from the School of International and Public Affairs, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies from UCLA. She resides in New York City.
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