Kate Hooper

Kate Hooper is a Senior Policy Analyst with MPI’s Global Program, where she leads MPI’s international work on labor migration. Her areas of research include legal migration pathways, fair and ethical recruitment, the implications of remote work and other nontraditional working arrangements for immigrant selection systems, labor market integration, and complementary pathways for displaced populations.

Ms. Hooper has advised governments and intergovernmental organizations on legal migration pathways and opportunities to adapt immigration and immigrant integration policies to respond to emerging labor market trends. She had a part-time secondment to the United Nations Development Program, where she conducted an internal review of UNDP’s programming on return and sustainable reintegration.

Ms. Hooper is the primary point person for the Transatlantic Council on Migration, MPI’s flagship international initiative that brings together senior policymakers, experts, and other stakeholders to discuss responses to pressing migration, protection, and immigrant integration issues.

She holds a master’s degree with honors from the University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations, and a bachelor of the arts degree in history from the University of Oxford. She also holds a certificate in international political economy from the London School of Economics.