Mar 1, 2019
On this episode of The Global Cable, Perry World House Inaugural Director William Burke-White and Global Shifts Program Manager Jocelyn Perry are joined by Perry World House Visiting Fellow, former President of Refugees International and advisor to UNHCR, Michel Gabaudan, to discuss the scope and scale of the refugee crisis in Venezuela.
Michel Gabaudan is the former President of Refugees International, an independent advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. Refugees International advocates on behalf of forcibly displaced populations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. Prior to his appointment to lead Refugees International, his career with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spanned twenty-seven years. During this time, he acted as the Charge de Mission in Guatemala; the Regional Representative for Mexico, Cuba and Central America; the Head of Donor Relations and Resource Mobilization Service; Regional Representative for the Pacific; Regional Representative for China and Mongolia; and the Regional Representative for the United States of America and the Caribbean. He has most recently served as Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ecuador, supporting the government’s efforts in responding to the mass outflow of Venezuelans in the region. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Bordeaux in 1975 and received his Master of Public Health from the University of London in 1999.
00:10 - Introduction with Inaugural Director Prof. Willian Burke-White and Global Shifts Program Manager Jocelyn Perry
02:10 - The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis
08:50 - Changing Responses to Refugee Crises
11:00 - How the Refugee Challenge changed over the past 30 years
15:20 - Refugees International
18:55 - The relationship between Refugees & Migration
26:10 - Interesting Global Fact: Sinking Islands & Long-Run Climate Change
28:30 - Outro
Music and Produced by Tre Hester