Jay Ramasubramanyam is a PhD candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies with a specialization in Political Economy, at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the 2018-2019 TD Graduate Fellow in Migration and Diaspora Studies.

Prior to his doctoral candidature, he was employed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a Refugee Status Determination Associate and in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as a Protection Field Officer. 

Jay served as the President of Carleton University Graduate Students’ Association from 2018-2019, after serving as Vice-President Academic in the year before. Jay has also been a frequent columnist in and contributor to The Leveller, a local left-leaning newspaper in Ottawa.

Jay holds a Master of Law in International Human Rights and a Postgraduate Diploma from Birmingham City University, England and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand