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 ZH 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 University.

Dr. Khadria earned his BA Econ Hons from Cotton College and PhD from JNU. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, a Times Fellow at the Teen Murti House, and a Fulbright Scholar at Boston University.

His publications include The Migration of Knowledge Workers (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 the Indian Diaspora. He is the Co-editor of Sage Handbook of International Migration (London 2019), and World Migration Report 2020 (UN-IOM Geneva).

A member of the International Steering Committee of Metropolis International and the IOM’s Migration Research Leaders Syndicate, Dr. Khadria served 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. In the past, Dr. Khadria has visited ISIM as a project collaborator as well as a distinguished speaker at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.