Justin Dubois

Justin Dubois is currently a student at Oxford University (MSc in Forced Migration expected July 2007).

Justin was a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. Born and raised in Canada, he completed his undergraduate studies at Colby College, Maine, in May 2005, receiving an Honors B.A. in International Relations and German. In 2003-2004 he spent a year at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In his honors thesis (for which he did field research in Berlin on a Hunt grant from the Colby International Studies Department) he analyzed effects of the reform of national citizenship law in Germany. After completing his B.A., he received a fellowship from the Humanity in Action Foundation to participate in a two-month human rights educational program in the Netherlands.

His work experience includes an internship with the Committee for the Affairs of the European Union at the German Bundestag, an internship with the European Parliament in Brussels (office of Cem Özdemir, MEP), consulting engagements with Francophone NGOs in his Canadian home province of Saskatchewan, and working as a coordinator of the international leadership program at the Jeux de la Francophonie. He was a Summer Fellow with GPPi's Berlin office in July and August 2005. He re-joined GPPi in June 2006 before continuing his graduate education at the University of Oxford in October 2006 (MSc. program in Forced Migration). During his studies at Colby College, he received a Davis United World College scholarship.