Samuel Zewdie Hagos is a multidisciplinary expert with more than a decade of experience in research, humanitarian aid, public service, refugee work and development programmes. He holds a PhD from the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography (IWKG) at Leibniz University Hannover, where his research focused on the role of refugees, the geopolitics of forced migration and the social mobilisation of displaced people. His academic background also includes a Master's in Public Health Informatics from Addis Ababa University and a Master's in International Humanitarian Action from Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Warsaw. Since August 2020, he has been working as a Researcher at DeZIM Institute, where he focuses on critical issues such as climate change-induced displacement, the agency roles of refugees and the lived experiences of refugees.