Alessandra Venturini is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Turin and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Center (MPC) at the EUI. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the EUI, and held professor positions at the Universities of Florence, Bergamo, and Padova. She has also held visiting positions at Brown University, the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University), and the International Institute of Labour Studies at the ILO in Geneva. She has collaborated with the OECD migration section, the European Commission Migration Programme, CEPR Migration Research programme, and the World Bank. She is a fellow at the IZA, CHILD, FIERI, and member of IMISCOE. Her research interests are in Labour Economics, with a focus on the effects of migration and on foreigners’ assimilation in the destination country, on the effect of remittances and high skilled migration in sending countries and on circular and irregular migration and she published extensively on all these subjects.