Prof. Francisco ALBA

Prof. Francisco Alba is Professor-Researcher at ‘El Colegio de México’. He is an economist  and expert in migration, and has published extensively on Mexican migration and migratory policy; population and development; economic integration; Mexico-U.S. relations; and related topics.

Prof. Alba is also a Member of the Advisory Board of Mexico’s Migration Institute and of the United Nations Committee for the Protection of Migrants. He is a former Member of the Mexico/United States Bi-national Study on Migration, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Population Reference Bureau, and of the Committee on Population, of the National Research Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Alba is trained as demographer at El Colegio de México, and has also done graduate work in social sciences at the Institute of Political Studies, Paris and at the University of Texas, Austin.

Professor Alba is a citizen of Mexico and lives with his family in Mexico City.