Prof. Binod Khadria, the President of GRFDT, has been nominated as ‘Affiliated Scholar’ at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Prof. Binod Khadria, who has been at the helm of GRFDT since August 2021, is an eminent academician and former Professor of Economics and Chairperson of the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. His special fields of expertise are Economics; Education Policy & Governance; Globalisation, International Trade, and Migration & Diaspora Studies. As a co-editor, his latest publications include the World Migration Report 2020 (IOM-UN Migration) and the Sage Handbook of International Migration (Sage, London 2019). Prof.Khadria has played a pivotal role in global migration discourses, serving as the Thematic Expert at the second UN General Assembly debate on the processes that led to the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) in 2018, and steering numerous international projects on migration.
ISIM, a part of the Walsh School of Foreign Service and affiliated with the Law Center at Georgetown University, has been a vital civil society actor contributing to migration discourses since 1998. It is a prominent multidisciplinary centre that combines best practices in social science research and policy expertise to look into various dimensions of international migration.
The addition of Prof. Khadria to the cohort of internationally acclaimed scholars at ISIM is a moment of pride for the GRFDT, and advances the prospect of scholarly endeavors on migration.