I am a highly qualified research professional with extensive management and engagement skills and more than 35 years’ experience working with the UN, international organisations, refugee and migrant-led groups, NGOs and the private sector. I was previously head of asylum and migration research at the UK Home Office, Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research, Director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research at Swansea University and Head of Equitable Development and Migration at the UN University’s Centre for Policy Research in New York. Since 2019, I have been Director of the Migration for Development and Equality (MIDEQ) Hub, a global consortium of 18 research institutions, six international organizations and numerous local and regional partners that aims to transform knowledge and understanding of the relationships between migration, inequality and development in the context of the Global South. I have published extensively on a wide range of asylum and immigration issues including the drivers of migration and migrant decision-making, gender issues in forced migration, refugee and migrant rights, the experiences of children and young people on the move, attitudes towards migration and migrants, and politics of migration. My 2017 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) article (with Dr Dimitri Skleparis) on the problem of categories in refugee and migration policy making is the 2nd most read JEMS article of all time (with more than 90k views) and the 5th most cited. Most recently I co-edited (with Professor Joseph Kofi Teye) The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality to showcase the work of migration scholars in the Global South. The Handbook has been downloaded more than 170k times.