Andrew Selee

President, Migration Policy Institute

Andrew Selee has been the president of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a nonpartisan institution that seeks to improve immigration and integration policies, since August 2017. Prior to that, he spent 17 years at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he founded the center’s Mexico Institute and later served as vice president for programs and executive vice president. He has also worked as staff in the U.S. Congress and on development and migration programs in Tijuana, Mexico with the YMCAs. Selee’s research focuses on migration globally, with a special emphasis on immigration policies in Latin America and in the United States. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together (PublicAffairs, 2018). Selee is also the co-author of the MPI policy reports Trump’s First Year on Immigration Policy: Rhetoric vs. Reality (January 2018), Creativity amid Crisis: Legal Pathways for Venezuelan Migrants in Latin America (January 2019), and Changing Patterns of U.S.-Mexico Migration (forthcoming). He has been an adjunct professor at both Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University, and was a visiting scholar at El Colegio de México. Selee holds a BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from Washington University in St. Louis, an MA in Latin American studies from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD in policy studies from the University of Maryland.