Mo is an affiliate professor at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI).
His research concentrates on climate change and environmental displacement, as well as refugees’ mobility and rights.
Previously, Mo held positions such as Chair of Social Vulnerability Studies at the United Nations University in Bonn, Germany; Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Sweden; advisor to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB); and advisor to the MIT Climate CoLab.
Mo has 40 years of experience working in the field of disaster risk management and post-conflict development and has considerable experience with international development organisations.
He has recently published in Comparative Migration Studies, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, and Frontiers in Human Dynamics. He was the lead author and editor of the World Disasters Report 2015.
Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities (co-editor) Bristol University Press, 2025
