Mary Boatemaa Setrana

Mary Boatemaa Setrana is Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana, where she leads large research projects funded by the European Union, the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Worldwide Universities Network and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She led the finalization of Botswana’s national migration policy and consulted on the development of national migration policies in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe as well as the labour migration policy in Malawi. Mary served as a technical advisor to the African Union Commission’s work on migration governance. She is currently an advisory board member of the African Research Universities Alliance’s Centre of Excellence on Migration and Mobility. Her research interests include forced migration and displacement, migration governance and gender, youth migration and aspirations and transnational migration and diasporas.