Jasmin Lilian Diab

Assistant Professor of Migration Studies; Director of the Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese American University
Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/هي) is a scholar and expert in Migration, Gender and Conflict Studies. Dr. Diab is the Director of the Institute for Migration Studies (IMS) at LAU, where she also serves as an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Migration Studies at the Department of Communication, Mobility and Identity (CMI).

Dr. Diab is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University and a Global Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. As of 2024, she is a Visiting Professor in Migration Studies at Sciences Po Lyon.

Prior to her position at LAU, Dr. Diab served as the Refugee Health Program Coordinator and Research Associate in Political Economy of Health in Conflict at the Global Health Institute at the American University of Beirut (2019-2021), and Research and Project Manager at the Lebanese Emigration Research Center at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Notre Dame University-Louaize (2013-2019). She holds a PhD in International Relations with an emphasis on Refugees, Asylum and Security from HEIP’s Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies (CEDS) in Paris, France.

Her research has been awarded the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies Seed Grant from Brown University (2023), as well as the Williams Institute LGBTI Global Small Grant from the University of California, Los Angeles’ School of Law (2023).

Dr. Diab serves as an Editorial Board Member for Refugee Survey Quarterly, Frontiers in Sociology - Migration and Society and PLOS Global Public Health where she also serves as Guest Editor in ‘Humanitarian Aid, Conflict and Migration’. She is also an Advisory Board Member ‘Migration, Displacement, and Development’ Book Series.

In addition to serving on the boards of organizations working in the migration and development space, Dr. Diab has completed 100+ consultancies for UN Agencies, international humanitarian organizations and governments, evaluating humanitarian programming, leading research in conflict settings, leading gender analyses, and developing strategic plans for organizations targeting hard-to-reach areas and displaced populations across the MENA region.