Back to Contents C. Interviewee Biographies and transcripts (in alphabetical order) Disclaimer: Please note that all interviewees have provided their own biography details. These have not been authored by Asylos and, as a result, they do not follow a standard format. Mr Riad Al Khouri An expert on West Asia & North Africa, Riad has for five decades trained, advised, lectured, and researched on a wide variety of topics in or on the region and its periphery, including migration, culture, politics, refugees, and human rights publishing on them and others, as well as making media appearances. He has also appeared as court witness or made expert submissions on cases involving various of the region’s countries on a range of topics such as asylum-seeking. Riad holds a High School Diploma from l’Ecole internationale de Genève; BA from the American University of Beirut (AUB), School of Arts & Sciences; and MLitt from the University of Oxford, Faculty of Social Studies. He was visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut; strategic advisor to the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; dean, trustee, and council member at the Lebanese French University, Erbil; Professor at the Prince Hussein School of Politics and International Relations, the University of Jordan. Amman; and Lecturer at AUB, and at Beirut University College (now the Lebanese American University) Beirut. Among other current activities and positions, Riad is Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Challenges Forum Foundation, Geneva; Country of Origin Information expert for the Fahamu Refugee Program, Oxford; Board Associate at SUNSGLOW Global Training in the Rule of Law, New York City; and international advisor to the president of Questscope (a UK-registered NGO dealing with refugees) Amman; as well as member of the Council for British Research in the Levant, among other bodies and organizations. He has undertaken assignments as principal or subcontractor for the Jordan Center for Human Rights; the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies; the International Organization for Migration (IOM); the governments of Ras al Khaimah and of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Department for International Development; the United States Agency for International Development; as well as many other private, public, and civil organizations including law offices in the UK, US, and elsewhere. Riad has conducted workshops, lectured, or appeared in panels on-site at the Carnegie Foundation, Brussels, and Washington DC; Case Western University, Cleveland; the European University Institute, Florence; Temple University, Philadelphia; Stanford University, Palo Alto; and the Middle East Institute, Washington DC; as well as off-site for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council; Columbia University; the University of Chicago; and the University of California, Los Angeles, among many others. His mother tongue is Arabic, and he is also natively fluent in English, with a strong working knowledge of French. Married, with two children, Riad lives in Amman. Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/‫ )يه‬is a Canadian-Lebanese Scholar and Expert in Migration, Gender and Conflict Studies. Dr. Diab is the Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University, where she also serves as an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Migration Studies at the Department of Social and Education Sciences. In 2022, she became the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research’s first ever Global Fellow on Migration and Inequality. She has served as a Visiting Professor at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace at their Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, an Adjunct Faculty Member of International Migration and Refugee Law at the Global Institute of Law, as well as a Guest Lecturer at McGill University, Leiden University, and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Dr. Diab is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a Global Fellow at Brown 17. Appendices 154