Bio
Brian Gorlick worked with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and UN Secretariat in New York in several senior positions for twenty-seven years. With UNHCR he served in Türkiye, India, Sweden, NY, the Caribbean, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and the Department of International Protection in Geneva. He has travelled on missions to some fifty countries around the globe. Prior to joining the United Nations, Brian was legal counsel in the areas of immigration, refugee, and administrative law in Toronto.
He holds degrees from the University of Winnipeg (BA), York University (MA), Osgoode Hall Law School (JD), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LLM with distinction) and was called to the Ontario Bar. Brian is a member of the Editorial Board of Refugee Survey Quarterly (Oxford University Press), and has published on international and comparative refugee and human rights law, the political-economy of the UN, immigration and national security, global administrative law, and the Rohingya refugee situation. He has lectured and taught at universities and training institutions throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.
In addition to teaching on the RLI MA programme, Brian is engaged in consultancy and volunteer work on international public law, programme evaluation, the promotion of refugee and migrant rights, and poverty reduction.
Publications
Available at:
- https://scholar.google.com/citationsuser=Xs9gCbcAAAAJ&hl=en
- www.ssrn.com
- www.researchgate.net.
- The Refugee Response Index - Guidebook & Questionnaire at:
https://daraint.org/refugee-response-index/