Artemis Seaford is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the intersection of political theory and immigration law. Ms. Seaford also works with Open Society Foundations and The Refugee Hub at the University of Ottawa to promote improvements to the international refugee process, including the adoption of private sponsorship of refugees, improved matching methods of resettled persons to host communities, and to bring the benefits of the shared economy to refugees and other displaced persons.

Previously, Ms. Seaford was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and Oliver Wyman. She has also worked for the law firm Cleary Gottlieb and Hamilton, United Nations, the European Union Delegation in DC, the NGO Search for Common Ground, and has served as judicial clerk for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rwanda.

She holds a first class honors B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She is bilingual in English and Greek, and conversational in French.