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Eirene Chen (she/her) is an international humanitarian and development specialist with over 20 years of experience supporting forcibly displaced people in a range of emergency and non-emergency contexts worldwide. From 2019-2021, she served as the SOGIESC/LGBTI consultant on global LGBTIQ+ refugee protection issues at UNHCR’s Division of International Protection and led the organisation of the 2021 UNHCR-IE SOGI Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Forced Displacement, the first global meeting that the agency had convened on this subject in over 10 years. Eirene has worked with United Nations entities, governments and civil society organisations on refugee protection, social integration, governance and civil society development initiatives in both fragile and stable states throughout North America, Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States, Africa, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific. She is an alumna of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Oxford University Refugee Studies Center’s Summer School in International Forced Migration.
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