Madeline Garlick

Dr. Madeline Garlick is Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section in the Division of International Protection of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has worked as a Fellow with the International Migration Initiative of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), and as a Guest Researcher at the Centre for Migration Law at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She was previously responsible for UNHCR’s liaison to the EU institutions from 2004-2013.

She served wtih the UN in Cyprus, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on legal issues related to the rights of displaced people. She teaches on an occasional basis at Sciences Po, Paris, and at the College of Europe in Bruges. She holds a PhD degree from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, a Masters degree in law from Cambridge University, UK, and Arts and Laws (Honours) degrees from Monash University, Australia. She is qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, Australia.