Dr. Alan Gamlen, 2009-2010
Curriculum Vitae
Alan Gamlen is now Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University.
Alan Gamlen was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on migration, diasporas and transnationalism.
He is an expert on human
migration and mobility. Alan has previously held appointments
at Oxford University, Stanford University, the Max Planck Society,
the Japan Centre for Area Studies, Monash University and Wellington
University in his homeland, New Zealand. In 2010-2020 he was Founding
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Migration
Studies (Oxford University Press), and in 2016-17 he was
Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research
Centre. Alan’s research has been funded by the Australian Research
Council, the Royal Society of New Zealand, the UK Leverhulme
Trust, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the New Zealand
Bright Futures Fund, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science. He has worked as a consultant and advisor on migration and
migration policy to the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the
International Organization for Migration, various United Nations
agencies, and numerous national governments, regional agencies, and
NGOs. He is a High-Level Advisor to the United Nations Migration
Agency and an Advisory Board Member with the UN Platform on Disaster
Displacement. Alan’s book, Human Geopolitics: States, Emigrants
and the Rise of Diaspora Institutions (Oxford University Press
2019), won the 2020 Distinguished Book Award for Best Book
on Ethnicity and Migration from the International Studies
Association. He is a member of the Tainui federation of
Māori tribes in Aotearoa-New Zealand. He holds a Doctorate from
the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College), where he studied as a
New Zealand Top Achiever Scholar.
Research projects:
- The diversification of postwar migration (completed) (with Steven Vertovec and Norbert Winnige)