Elizabeth Ferris is a research professor at Georgetown and a nonresident senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. She joined the Institute for the Study of International Migration in 2015 after serving for nine years as a senior fellow and co-director of the Brookings Project on Internal Displacement and as an adjunct professor in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/elizabeth-ferris/rss en Laws & Policy Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:18:04 +0000 Elizabeth Ferris https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/11/17/after-trumps-election-we-need-to-get-creative-on-the-refugee-crisis https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/11/17/after-trumps-election-we-need-to-get-creative-on-the-refugee-crisis Following a series of global summits on refugees, the U.S. elected Donald Trump. Elizabeth Ferris, who played a key role in the U.N. summit, considers whether progress is ruined, or if diminished U.S. leadership would bring new players and policy ideas to the fore.