About
Hillel Rapoport is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he holds the Chair of International Migration Economics. He is also scientific adviser at CEPII and research fellow at IZA, CESifo, Harvard CID, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Researh (LISER), the European Development Network (EUDN) and the Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin). A member of Bar-Ilan University until 2013, he held visiting positions at Stanford University (in 2001-03) and at Harvard University (in 2009-11). Since 2008 he is the scientific coordinator of the “Migration and Development” annual conferences jointly organized by the World Bank and the French Development Agency. His research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration and on the economics of immigration, diversity, and refugees’ integration.