Jenna L Hennebry

Dr. Jenna Hennebry (Ph.D.) is an internationally recognized scholar, founding Director of the International Migration Research Centre (www.imrc.ca ), and Professor at Wilfrid Laurier’s Balsillie School of International Affairs. She has carried out research with migrant agricultural workers in Canada for 20 years and she is co-founder of the Migrant Worker Health Project (https://migrantworker.ca/ ). Her areas of expertise include migrant workers’ rights, health and social protection, gender, technology and global migration governance. Dr. Hennebry has carried out policy relevant research on labour migration governance and migrant workers in countries such as Canada, Morocco, Mexico, the Philippines, and Spain, among others. Her work has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada, UN Women, the Government of Spain, the Workplace Safety Insurance Board, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Government of Germany and numerous other national and international agencies. Her work has been published in scholarly journals and by agencies at the national and global level, and her expertise has also been widely recognized internationally. Hennebry is the co-lead of the UN Network on Migration's Gender Workstream and she sits on the IOM's Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Advisers group and on the Canadian Council for Refugees Migrant Worker Subcommittee.