Michael Clemens was the director of migration, displacement, and humanitarian policy and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he served for 20 years and founded the Migration and Development program. He is an economist who studies the causes and effects of international migration around the world, and remains a Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at CGD.
He is now Professor of Economics and founding faculty at the School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University, and a Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is also a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Luxembourg, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at RFBerlin, an invited member of the Research and Policy Network on the Political Economy of Migration at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
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