Sara Vigil

Sara Vigil is a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Bangkok, specializing in the Gender, Environment, and Development research cluster. Her work examines intersections between climate change, migration, and land grabbing, with a focus on gendered impacts of environmental displacement and barriers to transformative activism.

• Former researcher and policy advisor at The Hugo Observatory
• Management committee member of the H2020 Environmental Diplomacy and Geopolitics (EDGE) project
• Research partner for the Migration, Environment, and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP) project

She has consulted for organizations like the World Bank, United Nations agencies, and the Nansen Initiative, while lecturing on migration governance and environmental geopolitics at institutions including Sciences Po Paris and the University of California, Berkeley.