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Roberta Cohen is a nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She is a specialist in human rights, humanitarian, and refugee issues and a leading expert on the subject of internally displaced persons. She co-founded and co-directed The Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement for over a decade and now serves as senior advisor to The Brookings Institution – University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement and as senior adviser to Walter Kälin, the Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. She has published about 100 articles on human rights and humanitarian issues and a series of opeds in leading newspapers. In 2002, she was awarded the DACOR (Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired -- State Department) Fiftieth Anniversary Award for Exemplary Writing on Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy, in particular on "refugees and internally displaced persons.

She is on the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford). She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (Switzerland), an M.A. “with distinction” from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Washington DC and Bologna, Italy) and a B.A. from Barnard College (Columbia University, New York), where she majored in History and minored in Government, and which awarded her its Distinguished Alumna Award in 2005.