Ian Baird
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Addiction/Drugs/Drug Policy
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Child Soldiers
- Climate-Related Issues
- Coercive Population Control
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Disability
- Document Authentication
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- FGM/FGC
- Forced Conscription
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- Journalist Persecution
- Land Tenure Dispute
- LGBTQ
- Likelihood Of Destitution/Homelessness
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Specialized Medical Services
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Ian Baird
Dr. Baird is a Professor of Geography and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the coordinator of the Hmong Studies Consortium at UW-Madison, and PI for the Lao American Archive Project at UW-Madison. He was previously the Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UW-Madison, and he remains on the Center’s Steering Committee. He is also affiliated with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison. He has been living, working and conducting research in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia since the late 1980s. He lived in Laos for 15 years, and in Thailand for 10 years. He remains active in conducting research in all three countries. His areas of interest include, but are not limited to, environmental issues, Indigenous Peoples and ethnic minorities, politics, development studies, marginalization, poverty, cross-border issues, insurgency, social services, and immigration.
