Frédéric Docquier

Head of the Research Programme on Crossing Borders at Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Research

Frédéric Docquier has been acting as a Research Program Leader (on Crossing Borders) at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) since 2019. He is also Affiliate Professor at the University of Luxembourg where he is coordinating the ACROSS doctoral training unit. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université d'Aix-Marseille. His research interests are in economics of migration, quantitative development theory, economic growth. He acted as a ST Consultant for the World Bank, and as an external expert for the United Nations (UNESCO and High-Level Panel on the post-2015 Development Agenda) and Agence Française de Développement. He published articles in Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and many other journals.