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Nicola Piper

Professor of International Migration and British Academy Global Professor Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

Nicola Piper is Professor of International Migration at the University of Sydney and the Founding Director of the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre. She is currently a British Academy Global Professor Fellow hosted by Queen Mary University of London’s School of Law, conducting research on global governance of labour migration and the role of the International Labour Organization in the promotion of decent work for migrant workers (January 2019 to December 2022). Nicola is also partner investigator in the UKRI funded Global Challenge Research Hub on South-South Migration and Inequality, and co-lead of the Gender Work Package (2019-2023). Furthermore, she is co-chief editor of the journal Global Social Policy and editor of two book series with Routledge (Asian Migration with Profs. Chan and Lee; Labour and Skills Mobility in Asia with Prof. Eric Fong, Chinese University of Hong Kong).