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33 Int'l J. Refugee L. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/intjrl33 and id is 1 raw text is: International Journal of Refugee Law, 2021, Vol 33, No 1, 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeab030 EDITORIAL Welcome a Board Jane McAdam and Geoff Gilbert Editors-in-Chief In 2020, in consultation with Oxford University Press, we decided to expand and di- versify the composition of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Refugee Law. The Board has existed since the journal was founded in 1989 and has always been a mix of academics and practitioners from across the globe. Our aim was to increase its composition and reach. With existing Board terms up for periodic review, we first ascertained who was able to continue. Regrettably, but for understandable reasons, three Board members stepped down: Professor BS Chimni, Professor Francois Crepeau, and Dr Volker Turk. We thank each of them for their many years of service to the journal, and indeed to the study and practice of international law more generally. Volker Turk, who remains an unstinting supporter of the journal, is a prime example of why the IJRL has such traction with not just the academic community, but also international organizations, civil society, prac- titioners, and policymakers. Until 2019, when he moved to UN headquarters in New York, Volker Turk was the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR, where he brought both his practical and scholarly expertise to bear. Consequently, in searching for new Board members we reached out directly to Dr Madeline Garlick, Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice section in the Division of International Protection at UNHCR, who willingly accepted. We also invited the long-time, former Book Review Editor of the journal, Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz, to join the Board. He was always much more than the Book Review Editor alone, and, as Vice-President of GRETA, the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, he also combines academic rigour with practical insight. The broader plan relating to the expansion of the Board was that the IJRL should be more diverse in its leadership. To achieve this, we issued a general call to networks that engage scholars and practitioners working on international law and forced migration. We were looking for about 10 new members, thereby effectively doubling the Board's size. In the end, we received many times that number of applications from scholars and practitioners across the world, virtually all of whom would have been suitable appointments. © The Author(s) (2021). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions please email: journals.permissions@oup.com . 1

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