Siegel

Melissa Siegel is a Professor of Migration Studies at the United Nations University-MERIT and Maastricht University. She has two decades of experience in the field of migration, public policy and development. She is Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). She currently holds the Chair of the UNU Migration Network and is a Research Associate at the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. She is also on the advisory board of the Migration Policy Center, EUI, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has done visiting research fellowships at Harvard University, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the University of Oxford. She has advised, worked on or headed projects for a number of governments and international organizations. She is also regularly involved in migration-related trainings for governments and organizations and teaching at the Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD level. She has also given advice at the United Nations and European Commission on migration issues. Her main research interest lies in the causes and consequences of migration with a strong emphasis on the linkages between migration and development.