Binod Khadria is currently the President of the think tank Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) and Co-convener of Metropolis Asia-Pacific. He is a former Professor of economics and Chairperson of the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),New Delhi. In 2017-18, he held the inaugural Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA.Dr. Khadria earned his BA Econ Hons from Cotton College and PhD from JNU. He has been a Visiting Fellow at University of Sussex, National University of Singapore, a Times Fellow at Teen Murti House, a Faculty of Arts Asia Scholar at University of Melbourne, a Fulbright Scholar at Boston University and a visiting professor at severalother universities in USA, Africa and Europe.His publications include The Migration of Knowledge Workers: Second-generation Effects of India’s Brain Drain (Sage 1999), two volumes of India Migration Report (Cambridge University Press 2009; 2012), Indian Skilled Migration and Development: To Europe and Back (Springer 2014). In addition to scholarly journals and edited volumes, his research papers have been published by the ILO, IOM, OECD, GCIM,IRD-France, IDE-Japan, Harvard International Review, and the Encyclopedia of theIndian Diaspora. He is the Co-editor of Sage Handbook of International Migration(London 2019), and World Migration Report 2020 (UN-IOM Geneva), special issues ofInternational Migration Journal (2019), and the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal(2023).A member of the International Steering Committee of Metropolis International and theIOM’s Migration Research Leaders Syndicate, Dr. Khadria served as the ThematicExpert at the second UN General Assembly debate on the processes that led to theGlobal Compact for Migration (GCM) in 2018. In 2023, he was appointed a Scholar ofExcellence at Toronto Metropolitan University, and in 2024 an affiliated Fellow at theInstitute for the Study of International Migration in Edward J. Walsh School of ForeignService, Georgetown University, Washington DC. In 2023, he was also invited to deliverthe Opening Keynote Address at the 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference on “Migrationand Inequalities” at Warsaw, Poland.