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Francisco Alba is an economist and demographer; he is profesor and researcher at El Colegio de México, in Mexico.
He has served as member of the Board of Governors of El Colegio de México (2008-2013).
In Mexico, he has been member of the Advisory Council on Migration Policy, at the Mexican Ministry of Interior (2014-2015); and member of the Advisory Council of the Mexican National Institute of Migration (2001-2012). Bilaterally, member of the U.S.-Mexico Binational Study on Migration (1995-1997).
Internationally, he was member of the United Nations Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers (2004-2011); and member of the Global Commission on International Migration (2003-2005).
At the U.S., he has been member of the Governing Council of the Population Reference Bureau (1996-2002); and member of the Committee on Population at the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1985-1990).
He has also been member of various academic and professional committees and associations.
He holds a degree in Philosophy from the Gregorian University, Rome, Italy; and in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. He has postgraduate studies in demography, from El Colegio de México; in social sciences, from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, France; and from the University of Texas at Austin.
His areas of research are the governance of international migration; migration policies of Mexico and of the United States; implications of demographic changes on economic and social development; regional integration processes, particularly in North America.
His current projects include. Nation-states in the face of increasing human mobility: opportunities and challenges; rights and obligations. Economic and social implications in Mexico's future of demographic aging and contexts of low demographic dynamism.
