Andrew Selee
Andrew Selee is President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a global, nonpartisan public policy organization that seeks to advance immigration and integration approaches that are in the societal interest through evidence-based work. He also chairs MPI’s Europe’s Administrative Council and is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on global migration.
Dr. Selee’s research focuses on migration globally, with a special emphasis on immigration policies in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He is the author and co-author of several books, including On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Stanford University Press, 2025); Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together (PublicAffairs, 2018); and What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide to Policy Impact (Stanford University Press, 2013).
He has published opinion articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other publications, and writes an occasional column in the Mexican newspaper El Universal.
Prior to joining MPI in 2017, Dr. Selee spent 17 years at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he founded its Mexico Institute and later served as the Center’s Vice President for Programs and Executive Vice President. He has also worked as staff in the U.S. Congress and on programs with migrant youth in Tijuana, Mexico.
He is on the editorial board of the journal Migration Studies, the advisory board for Ayuda, and the advisory board for the Immigration Initiative at Harvard University. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of the USA.
Dr. Selee holds a PhD in policy studies from the University of Maryland; an MA in Latin American studies from the University of California, San Diego; a BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from Washington University in St. Louis; and a certificate in strategic perspectives on nonprofit management from Harvard Business School. He was an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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Creativity amid Crisis: Legal Pathways for Venezuelan Migrants in Latin America
With more than 3 million Venezuelans living abroad as of late 2018, Latin American countries have improvised creative legal pathways but must now plan for the long term.
U.S. Immigration Policy under Trump: Deep Changes and Lasting Impacts
President Donald Trump has driven deep changes to U.S. immigration in his first year, but courts, Congress, and state and local resistance have blocked the most ambitious aims.
Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
Mexico's economic and cultural transformation has created deep, mutually beneficial interdependencies with the United States that no border wall can undo, this book by MPI’s president argues.
Trump’s First Year on Immigration Policy: Rhetoric vs. Reality
During its first year, the Trump administration sought to cancel DACA, Temporary Protected Status, and refugee protections, but the border wall stalled in Congress and courts.
Immigration under Trump: A Review of Policy Shifts in the Year Since the Election
Rising enforcement, cancelled protections, and record-low refugee admissions marked Donald Trump's first year on immigration—though courts and Congress blocked key ambitions.
Crime and Violence in Mexico and Central America: An Evolving but Incomplete U.S. Policy Response
The U.S. policy response to crime and violence in Mexico and Central America has grown since 2007 but remains more developed toward Mexico than to northern Central America.
Hispanic Challenge? What We Know About Latino Immigration
Evidence-based analysis of Latino immigration rebuts alarmist claims—and refocuses the debate on policies that support integration and broader contributions to U.S. society.