About this Event
Drawing upon a dataset of 5,000+ surveys and a number of in-depth qualitative interviews collected across Kenya, Somalia, Burundi and South Sudan in 2025, Dr. Bonfiglio will share findings on the relationship between climate disasters and mobility outcomes, the diversity of movement patterns linked to climate disasters, and intersectional climate mobility dynamics as well as reflect on how micro-level data can be used to inform modeling for anticipatory action.
Dr. Ayla Bonfiglio is the Head of the Mixed Migration Center Eastern and Southern Africa | Egypt and Yemen. From 2019-2022, she was the Head of MMC’s North Africa hub. For 15 years, she has worked on issues of forced migration and mobility. Her doctoral research (UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University) examined how refugees and migrants make strategic decisions about their movements in relation to higher education. In this role, she conducted several hundred in-depth interviews with refugees and migrants in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda. In 2016, Ayla co-founded the Conflict and Education Learning Laboratory (CELL) in the Netherlands, a non-profit research foundation. Formerly, she was a Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, Oxford. She obtained an MSc in Forced Migration from the University of Oxford and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from Columbia University where she won the Charles Beard Prize for her dissertation on refugee self-reliance. She has worked and carried out research in a number of countries across North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and for a variety of organizations, including GIZ, ICMPD, IOM, UNESCO, UNODC, and UNHCR.
Event venue & nearby stays
111 Cummington Mall suite 117, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, United States
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