BRUCE LEIMSIDOR

Bruce Leimsidor has, for over a decade, taught European asylum law and international relations at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. He has been concurrently counselor for asylum affairs in the Venice municipality’s program for asylum seekers. Prior to his positions in Venice, he was a senior resettlement expert at UNHCR’s central resource center in Nairobi, Kenya, covering east and central Africa. He has also served as director of the US State Department’s Overseas Processing Entity in Vienna, Austria, the central office covering US refugee admissions through Central Europe, and was the director of the Central European office of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). He has also taught at the American University, Paris; Oberlin College; Occidental College; and Indiana University and has acted as visiting lecturer in Russia, Ukraine, India, S. Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on immigration and asylum and has also published on this topic in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and in major European dailies.