Sébastien Moretti

Sebastien Moretti holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, with a doctoral thesis focusing on the international protection of refugees in Southeast Asia. His areas of expertise include issues of refugee and human rights protection, mixed migration, immigration detention, smuggling and trafficking, and protection at sea, with a particular focus on the West African and Asia-Pacific contexts. Sebastien is also Senior fellow at the Global Migration Centre (GMC) of the Graduate Institute and former Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). He is the author of La protection des réfugiés en Asie du sud-est : du privilège aux droits (Bruylant, March 2016).

Besides his academic background, Sebastien has worked for several international and non-governmental organizations over the past 10 years, including as Legal Specialist on Asylum and Migration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and as Regional Migration Adviser in Asia-Pacific for the International Committee of the Red cross (ICRC), based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Previous missions in the field include Niger (with the United Nations Development Programme), Haiti, Burundi, the Philippines and Republic Democratic of Congo (as a Protection/Tracing delegate for the ICRC). Sebastien is currently the Coordinator of the West Africa Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS), a independent platform of information on mixed migratory movements within and from West Africa hosted by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and based in Dakar, Senegal.