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James C. Simeon, Ph.D.

Director, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. James C. Simeon is an Associate Professor and the Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. He served as the Acting Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) in the 2012-2013 academic year, and the Deputy Director of the CRS in the 2011-2012 academic year.

Prior to joining the faculty at York University, James served as the first Executive Director of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ). He is currently an Associate Member of the IARLJ and serves as the Coordinator of its Inter-Conference Working Party Process. He is one of the founding members of the IARLJ America Chapter. He is the immediate Past President of the Canadian Association of Refugees and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC).

James served on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) as a Member and Coordinating Member from September 1994 to October 2005. While a Member and Coordinating Member of the IRB he sat on a number of high profile cases, including, Pushpanathan, an exclusion case under Article 1F of the 1951 Convention that had been argued at the Supreme Court of Canada.