Michael A. Clemens
Michael A. Clemens, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2023, is professor of economics in the School of Government and Policy at Johns Hopkins University. He studies the economic causes and effects of migration all over the world.
He is also affiliated with the IZA Institute of Labor Economics at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London and RFBerlin, the Center for Global Development, and the Political Economy and Migration Network of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in Paris and London.
Clemens has a long record of influential academic publications, including in the American Economic Review, and his research has won the Royal Economic Society Prize. He has worked with the governments of both high-income and low-income countries around the world, as well as with a variety of international agencies, to design and evaluate innovations in migration policy.
He received his PhD from the department of economics at Harvard University, specializing in economic history, public economics, and development economics. Clemens speaks English and Spanish and has intermediate proficiency in Turkish, French, and Portuguese.