Research Fellow, ODI
About
I received an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2004, with a dissertation entitled "Islam and Indigenousness: The Making of Native/Migrant Identities in Post-independent Malaysia".
I started working with conflict-affected refugees in 1999, with a particular focus on refugees from Aceh and Burma. Since the 2004 tsunami, I have been working with international humanitarian organisations in post-disaster contexts, including 4 years in Aceh, Indonesia with various organisations (including Oxfam, UNDP, and the International Finance Corporation) and 2 years in Burma, with the ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force, as advisor to the ASEAN Special Envoy on Post-Nargis Recovery. From mid-2010-mid 2011 I served in post-earthquake Haiti with the UN-led Cluster System. Currently, I work as a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London, in the Humanitarian Policy Group.
My research at HPG includes civil-military relations in complex emergency contexts; the governance of post-crisis reconstruction; housing, land and property rights in displacement, return and resettlement; the rise of new humanitarian actors and the history of "humanitarianism", with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
Languages
Fluent: English, Indonesian
Intermediate: French, Mandarin, Arabic
Contact Information
| IM: | Skype: liliannefan |
