Global Affairs Expert Webinar: Migration and Labor Economics

Giovanni Peri, C. Bryan Cameron distinguished professor in international economics and founder and director of the Global Migration Center at University of California, Davis, and Edward Alden, senior fellow at CFR, will lead the conversation on migration and labor economics.

Giovanni Peri is the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Professor in International Economics at the University of California, Davis and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the Founder and the Director of the UC Davis Global Migration Center focusing on international migrations and migration policies. He was Co-Editor of the “Journal of the European Economic Association” between January 2019 and December 2023, and in the Editorial Board of several Academic Journals in Economics.

Edward Alden is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), specializing in U.S. economic competitiveness, trade, and immigration policy. His latest book is When the World Closed Its Doors: The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders, co-authored with Laurie Trautman, where they argue that even as states are increasingly resorting to border restrictions, they are inadequate for addressing pandemics, drugs, migration and other external challenges.