James C. Simeon is the head of McLaughlin College and an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a member-at-large and past president of the Executive of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. He also serves as the coordinator of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges’ (IARMJ) Inter-Conference Working Party Process. Before joining the faculty at York University he served as the IARMJ’s first executive director, and prior to that he was a member and coordinating member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB).