Barbara Harrell-Bond, OBE, had a D.Phil and an M.Litt in social anthropology from Oxford University. She was a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She founded the Refugees Studies Programme at Oxford University, which expanded rapidly during the years she was director (1982-1996). In 1999, while Visiting Professor at Makerere University, she set up the Refugee Law Project for Uganda. She was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo’s Forced Migration and Refugee Studies. She researched and wrote extensively, and a collection of her publications can be found online.  In 2000 she created the Refugee Legal Aid Project for refugees and asylum seekers in Cairo which developed into AMERA-Egypt. She set AMERA International up in the UK in 2003. Barbara passed away on 11 July 2018.