Andrew Selee is President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) since 2017, he also chairs MPI Europe’s Administrative Council. His research focuses on migration globally, with a special emphasis on immigration policies in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Selee is the author of several books, including, most recently, Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together (PublicAffairs, 2018). He spent 17 years at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he founded the Center’s Mexico Institute.
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Dr. Selee is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has previously taught at Johns Hopkins and George Washington universities and been a visiting scholar at El Colegio de México. He holds a PhD in policy studies from the University of Maryland; an MA in Latin American studies from the University of California, San Diego; a BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from Washington University in St. Louis; and a certificate in strategic perspectives on nonprofit management from Harvard Business School. He was selected as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for the 2017-18 period.