Prof. Laura Hammond

Laura Hammond is Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has been conducting research on food security, conflict, migration and diasporas in and from the Horn of Africa since the early 1990s. She lived in Ethiopia from 1993-2000, conducting research and working for various aid agencies. In 2018 she wrote the lead article on ‘Forced Migration and Hunger’ for the Annual Global Hunger Index.  Laura has done consultancy for a wide range of development and humanitarian organizations, including UNDP, USAID, Oxfam, Medécins Sans Frontières, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the World Food Programme.  She is the author of ‘This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia’ (Cornell University Press: 2004) and several book and journal articles.