Heather

Heather Alexander

Positions held

2025-2026 to today Collaborator(s),

Biography

Heather Alexander is an expert on nationality law, citizenship, statelessness and human rights. Her current work focuses on the intersection between citizenship law, legal identity and the person-like qualities of artificial intelligence.

She has a JD from Golden Gate University and a PhD in international law from Tilburg University, as well as fifteen years of experience as an expert consultant on statelessness and refugee law with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Carleton University, the University of Melbourne, the European University Institute and the US State Department. She has worked in Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, Australia, Chad, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Gabon and the United States. She began her career as an asylum lawyer with UNHCR and is a former US Peace Corps Volunteer. Her book, The Nationality and Statelessness of Nomadic Peoples Under International Law (OUP 2025) is the first global analysis of the right to a nationality for nomadic peoples.

Heather was a founding board member of United Stateless, an advocacy network for stateless people in the US, and a former board member of the Canadian Centre on Statelessness. She has been a member in good standing of the District of Columbia Bar Association since 2006.

Her website.

heather.jean.alexander@gmail.com