Research Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is the Research Director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and an adjunct Professor of Law at Aarhus University. He is also the Executive Chairman of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) and co-chairs several international research networks. He received his PhD (in international law) from Aarhus University, MSc (in refugee studies) from the University of Oxford and MA (in political science) from the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on international refugee law, human rights, and the relationship between international law and politics, human rights and globalisation, international refugee law, immigration policy and sovereignty.