Scott Leckie

Scott Leckie is a world citizen who has lived in more than a dozen countries across the world. His early life was spent on the West Coast of the United States, where he was attended the University of Oregon. He departed the US permanently in the mid-1980s and then lived in various countries throughout Europe and Asia and the Pacific.

Scott has worked on human rights issues in more than 80 countries. His interventions helped to protect hundreds of thousands of people against planned forced evictions in popular communities in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Zambia and around the world and led to additional hundreds of thousands of refugees and IDPs being able to repossess their homes. For the past 20 years, he has worked with many communities threatened with displacement due to climate change.

He has taught and designed several human rights courses in top-100 universities and law schools around the world, developed the world’s first law school course on climate change and displacement which he has taught at the College of Law of the Australian National University, University of Melbourne Law School, Monash Law and Mahidol University.

He has written 26 books and over 300 academic articles and reports on issues including world citizenship, land solutions for climate displacement, housing rights, economic, social and cultural rights, forced evictions, the right to housing and property restitution for refugees and internally displaced persons and other human rights themes. He has written two novels in a seven novel series, the Pacifica Series, as well as two biographies on his paternal grandfather and maternal uncle, both of whom led extraordinary lives.

He loves, lives on and is entirely dependent upon planet Earth - just like you.