Dr. Laura van Waas is a founder and Co-Director of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, as well as Assistant Professor at Tilburg Law School. In more than fifteen years of working on statelessness, Laura has carried out a wide array of research and teaching projects, both within academia and for the UN Refugee Agency. She has conducted studies for, among others, Plan International, the OHCHR, Open Society Foundations, the Women’s Refugee Commission, the United States Department of State, the European Parliament and the Norwegian Refugee Council.