Meghan McCormack has over a decade of international development experience, with expertise spanning international human rights law, project design and implementation, and democratic governance.
During her eight years living and working in Kyrgyzstan, Meghan travelled across the country to research informal dispute resolution in un-demarcated border zones, led the design and implementation of numerous country-wide studies on human rights norms and beliefs, trained domestic lawyers on international human rights law, and founded her own CSO to represent disadvantaged households in court. In Kosovo, she has led the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo portfolios to enhance parliamentary democracy, electoral processes, and decentralised local governance — contributing to Kosovo’s successful parliamentary and electoral reforms in 2022 and 2023, respectively. As an independent consultant, her work has spanned Central Asia and the Balkans, encompassing monitoring and evaluation reports, grant proposals and project documents, legislative drafting, and qualitative research for UNDP, UNICEF, UN Women, USAID, Tetra Tech, and Search for Common Ground, among other organisations.
Meghan holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Harvard University. She is a Fulbright Scholar, Robina Foundation International Human Rights Fellow, and member of the New York State Bar Association. She speaks Kyrgyz, Russian, and English, and lives with her husband and two children in Kosovo
Climate-related issues, Disability, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Ex-combatant reintegration, Forced marriage, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, Gender-based violence/domestic violence, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, HIV/AIDS, Journalist persecution, Land tenure disputes, LGBTQ, Political persecution, Prison conditions, Religious discrimination or persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Sufficiency of protection, Torture, Trafficking, Violence against children/child abuse
I've drafted legal briefs in US immigration cases and have taught graduate and undergraduate courses on international refugee law (1951 convention and its 1967 protocol), and am now beginning to work in the field of country of origin expertise.