Prof Jane McAdam
Professor Jane McAdam AO is Scientia Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is the Founding Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, where she leads the Evacuations Research Hub. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Law and the Royal Society of NSW, and is an Honorary Associate of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. Professor McAdam publishes widely in international refugee law and forced migration, with a particular focus on evacuations and mobility in the context of climate change and disasters. For a decade, she was the joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law, the leading journal in the field. She served from 2012–18 as the Co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Committee on International Law and Sea-Level Rise and was instrumental in developing the Sydney Declaration of Principles on the Protection of Persons Displaced in the context of Sea Level Rise. In 2022, she was appointed to draft the Pacific Regional Framework on Climate Mobility which was adopted by Pacific governments in 2023. Professor McAdam was an inaugural member of the Australian Government’s Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration Expert Sub-Committee, and she currently serves on the NSW Government’s Settlement Advisory Council. In 2021, Professor McAdam 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’.