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S. Irudaya Rajan

Chairman, International Institute of Migration and Development

S. Irudaya Rajan is Chairman, International Institute of Migration and Development and previously professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. He is Chair of the KNOMAD Thematic group on Internal Migration and Urbanization. With more than three decades of research experience at the CDS, he has coordinated eight major migration surveys in Kerala since 1998 (with Professor K. C. Zachariah); conducted migration surveys in Goa (2008), Punjab (2011) and Tamil Nadu (2015); and also provided technical support to the Gujarat Migration Survey (2010). He has published extensively in national and international journals on social, economic, demographic, psychological and political implications on migration. He has been the editor of the annual series India Migration Report(Routledge) since 2010 and the editor-in-chief of the journal Migration and Development since 2012. He works closely with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, and the Department of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs, Government of Kerala.