Loren B. Landau is a Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford and the South African Research Chair in Human Mobility and the Politics of Difference based at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration & Society. He has previously held visiting and faculty positions at Princeton, Georgetown, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His interdisciplinary scholarship explores mobility, multi-scale governance, and the transformation of socio-political community across the global south.

A frequent media resource on regional and global migration policy debates, he has published widely in the academic and popular press. Publications include but not limited to: “I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis” (2018),  “Forging African Communities: Mobility, Integration, and Belonging” (2016), and “The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid, and Transformation in Western Tanzania” (2008). He has consulted with the European Union, the World Bank, UNDP, UNHCR, UNECA, the Cities Alliance, and others. As chair of the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa  (2004-2012), he served on the South African Immigration Advisory Board. He holds a PhD in Political Science (Berkeley), and an MSc in Development Studies (LSE).