Dr Savitri Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Law School at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia). She has been researching and publishing on refugee law and asylum policy at the national, regional and international level for over 25 years. Her current major research project (in partnership with Dr Klaus Neumann) is titled “Protecting Non-Citizens: An Australian legal and political history, 1945-1989”. Dr Taylor is also very involved with the refugee sector in Australia. Most recently (2019), she partnered with the Refugee Council of Australia to publish a research report entitled “The Use of Non-Judicial Accountability Mechanisms by the Refugee Sector in Australia”.

Savitri will be speaking on the panel 'How to hold the Government to account' on Thursday 13 February