Killionaire - Hardcover

Leckie, Scott: - Scott Leckie (www.scottleckie.com.au) 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, Asia and the Pacific and Australia.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 founded three major international non-governmental organizations. He currently directs Displacement Solutions (www.displacementsolutions.org), a global not-for-profit NGO dedicated to resolving displacement generated by global warming and climate change. He also founded and directs Oneness World Foundation (www.onenessworld.org), a research think tank exploring new forms of global governance and world citizenship. He manages the One House, One Family (OHOF) initiative, a project in Bangladesh that funds and builds permanent and free homes for climate displaced families. To date, OHOF has built 18 homes to some of Bangladesh's most vulnerable families.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 now teaches at Monash Law School. He has written 28 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.