Giovanni Peri is C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Professor of Economics at UC Davis and Founder and Director of the Global Migration Center at UC Davis, a multi-disciplinary research center focused on migrations and refugees. He is Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has been Co-Editor of the Journal of European Economic Association between 2017 and 2022 and Chair of the UC Davis Economics Department between 2015 and 2019. His research focuses on the economic determinants and consequences of international migrations and immigration policies. He has published around 100 refereed articles in academic Journals including the American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has received research grants from the Mac Arthur Foundation, the Russel Sage Foundation, the World Bank and the National Science Foundation. His research is often featured in media outlets such as the Economist, the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and NPR news. He has advised more than 60 Ph.D. students, currently employed in academic, research and policy institution all over the world. He has often provided his expertise on economics of migrations and refugees to government and international agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, the IMF and the World Bank.
