Caitlin McCaffrie

Expertise: Human rights, transitional justice, forced migration, just transition

Caitlin McCaffrie is Policy Director for the Forced Migration and Just Transition Indonesia focus areas, where she leads the team working on forced migration and on energy transition in the Indo-Pacific region. Caitlin has worked at CPD since 2018, primarily working on the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration and more recently helping to establish the broader international program. She has also provided ad hoc support on the Cities and Settlement Initiative, Early Childhood Initiative and criminal justice reform work.

Prior to joining CPD Caitlin spent three years working for non-government organisations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, including the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and Stanford University’s WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice. She holds a Masters of Public Policy and Management degree from the University of Melbourne, and a first class Honours degree in International Studies from the University of Adelaide.

Publications

The fourteenth Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM) meeting was convened on 21-22 August 2025
The fifth meeting of the Australia–Indonesia Energy Transition Policy Dialogue was held in Jakarta on
Powering Prosperity is a report from the Centre for Policy Development that provides a practical
CPD was pleased to convene the eighth meeting of the Regional Peer-Learning Platform on Alternatives
Learning Together: Advancing Alternatives for Children is a joint paper from CPD’s Asia Dialogue on
This energy subsidy policy brief explores Indonesia's household subsidies for energy consumption, and lays out

In the media

When there was a refugee crisis to the country’s north in the past, most of the time Australian governments saw it as their problem.
Reforming the Bali Process will provide a genuine forum for Australia and partners to prepare ahead of the next crisis.
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