Giovanni Peri

Giovanni Peri is C. Bryan Cameron Professor of Economics at UC Davis and Director of the Global Migration Center, a multi-disciplinary research center focused on migrations and refugees. His research focuses on the economic determinants and consequences of international migrations and immigration policies. He has published extensively in academic Journals including the American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives and he has taught to undergraduate and graduate students at UC Davis, UC Berkeley and UCLA. 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 is often providing his expertise on economics of migrations and refugees to government and international agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office and the World Bank.