Mo Hamza is a Professor of Risk Management and Societal Safety at Lund University in Sweden. He also serves as an affiliate professor at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI). His research concentrates on climate change and environmental displacement, alongside refugees’ mobility and rights. Previously, he held positions such as Chair of Social Vulnerability Studies at the United Nations University in Bonn, Germany; Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Sweden; advisor to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB); and advisor to the MIT Climate CoLab. Among his recent publications are the forthcoming “Forced Migrants' Agency in First Countries of Asylum: Towards a more holistic understanding of decisions about secondary movement by Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon” in *Comparative Migration Studies* (2025), “Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review” in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (2025), a co-edited volume titled “Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities”, part of the Global Discourse Book Series by Bristol University Press (2025), and “Refugee Agency in Secondary Mobility Decision-Making” in Frontiers in Human Dynamics (2024). He was the lead author and editor of the World Disasters Report (2015), Focus on Local Actors as the Key to Humanitarian Effectiveness.