NASSIM MAJIDI Founder, Director and Migration Pillar Lead

Dr Nassim Majidi
Founder, Executive Director, Research and Policy Pillar Lead

Areas of expertise: Migration, Displacement, Durable Solutions, Return and Reintegration, Cross-border research, Trafficking, Empirical research

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Nassim is known for her work as an expert on return and reintegration, and more broadly on durable solutions to displacement, migrant aspirations, and cross border mobility. Over the last two decades, she has worked, as an academic and a research professional to give voice to under-represented groups and displaced populations, who find themselves caught in the hopes of migration and the despair of displacement and the difficulties of forced returns and deportations.

Nassim is based in the contexts that she studies - having lived between 2007-2014 in Afghanistan and since 2014 in Kenya and leads a team of researchers across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Her geographic and thematic portfolio of work has led her to work with a network of changemakers across the “North-South'' divide.

She is a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand, the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, and the Université Houphouet Boigny. Institute for Good Governance, Development, and Foresight (IGDP).

Nassim has published 31 academic and policy articles and led over 200 studies on migration including the more recent publications: South Sudan’s Decades of Displacement: Understanding Return and Questioning Reintegration, and Tipping Points to Turning Points - How Can Programmes and Policies Better Respond to the risks of Child Trafficking and Exploitation on the Central Mediterranean Route?

In 2015, she was nominated by the Norwegian Refugee Council for the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award in recognition of her sterling work on behalf of Afghanistan’s displaced population. Nassim can also be seen giving interviews and participates in panels for media including the Associated Press, Radio France, and TV5 Monde. 

Nassim holds a PhD in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris, France, a MA in International Affairs and Development Studies and a BA from Cornell University, USA.