Founding Director, Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute
Philippe Fargues is the founding Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is a sociologist and demographer. He has been Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, a senior researcher at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris, a visiting professor at Harvard, and the Director of the Centre for Economic Legal and Social Studies (CEDEJ) in Cairo.