Professor Laura Hammond Fellow Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. She is a leading scholar on migration, displacement and conflict in the Horn of Africa, with more than three decades of research, advisory and field experience.

Professor Laura has led major international research programmes funded by UKRI and the EU and has advised organisations including UNDP, UNHCR and the World Bank. She has lived and worked extensively in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland and has served as an expert witness in asylum and immigration cases in the UK and US.

She has been a Fellow of RVI since 2015.