Ober, Kayly

Kayly Ober

Kayly Ober (she/her) is the senior advocate and program manager of the Climate Displacement Program at Refugees International. She also currently serves as a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Task Force on Displacement. Kayly has more than a decade of experience on climate, migration, and displacement issues, including authoring the World Bank report Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration. She has also previously worked at the University of Bonn, Overseas Development Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and World Resources Institute, among others. Kayly holds a Master of Science in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from American University. She is currently completing her PhD in Geography at the University of Bonn, where her dissertation analyzes policymaking and governance structures around the climate change-adaptation-migration nexus.