Professor Jane McAdam AO

Professor Jane McAdam AO is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, and a Fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. In 2022, she was commissioned to lead the drafting of the world’s first regional framework on climate mobility for Pacific governments. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change and the displacement of people’.

Professor Jane's recent articles

A different kind of climate movement: the Kaldor Centre Principles on Climate Mobility

A different kind of climate movement: the Kaldor Centre Principles on Climate Mobility

Every second, someone is displaced by a disaster. Each year, nearly three times as many people are displaced within their own countries by disasters than by conflict the vast majority in the Asia-Pacific region. Climate change will amplify the problem as worsening cyclones, floods, bushfires, droughts and food insecurity force millions from their homes. Most people will move within their own countries, but some may be displaced across international borders. Yet others will be stuck at home, without the resources to move out of harms way.

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