I am a Professor of Economics and a Development Economist.

Specialising in the economics of migration, health and education, my research studies the role of public policy in improving human development. Currently it focuses on the integration of refugees in host countries, the impacts of border closure policies on irregular migrants and refugees, and the design of legalisation policies to weaken smuggling markets.

As Chair of the Academic Board of the University of Paris-Dauphine (UK campus) and Deputy Head of my department at City, I am promoting international partnerships between High Education providers through interdisciplinary education programmes and research projects.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, a member of the Executive Committee of the European Development Research Network (EUDN), a Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM, Paris) and of the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (CREAM, London), an Associate Researcher of LEDA (Dauphine University, Paris-Sciences-Lettres), and an Invited Researcher of J-PAL.

Working at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (London) from 2003 to 2010, I have gained expertise in public policy evaluation and have analysed policies related to migration, education (Conditional Cash Transfer programmes), labour market and health (health insurance, demand for health care, maternal health, nutrition, mental health and infectious diseases).

I have led quasi-experimental, experimental, and empirical research projects involving large data collections in Colombia, France, the UK, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra-Leone, Tanzania and Asia funded, among others, by the ESRC, the Hewlett foundation, the AIRD-IRD, the AFD, J-PAL, GCRF, DFID, the European Commission, and NORFACE...

Outside work, I am committed to the community through organising concerts, raising funds and playing the Cello to share my passion for music.